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says he, " before the God of heaven," He knew that devoted to earnest prayer, care-filled days, dark with TiVa (tan ffiigno all this ruin had come because of the transgressions of the shadow of hdpe deferred, leave their trace upon his ISSUED MONTHLY Israel ; and in deep humiliation he came before God countenance. The keen eye of the monarch, jealous to for the f,,r pardon of sin and a renewal of the divine favor. guard his own safety, is accustomed to read counte- „IOU tornakutAN :mita NCII He addressed his petitions to the God of heaven, " the nances and to penetrate disguises. Seeing that some of the great and terrible God ;" for such the Lord had shown secret trouble is preying upon servant, he suddenly international Fract and Missionary -Society. himself to be in the fearful judgments brought upon inquires, " Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou Price per year, 3s. 6d., Post-paid. Israel. But with a gleam of hope, Nehemiah con- art not sick ? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart." ---0— tinues : " That keepeth covenant and mercy with them This question fills the listener with apprehension. Devoted to the promulgation of moral and „social reforms, from a that love him and observe his commandments." For Will not the king be angry to hear that while out- purely Bible standpoint. Address all communications to Echo Publishing House, Rae and repentant and believing Israel there was still mercy. wardly engaged in his service, the courtier's thoughts Scotchmer Streets, North Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria. Faithfully the man of God makes confession of his have been far away with his afflicted people ? Will sins and the sins of his people : "'Let-thine .ear now not the offender's life be forfeited'? And his cherished BItJIOLD YOUR KING. be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayst hear plan for restoring the strength of Jerusalem—;s it not the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee about to be overthrown ? " Theta," he says, " I was "B hold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow." Lam. now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy serv- very sore afraid." With trembling lips and tearful 1:12. 11-Eno1,D your King I Though the moonlight steals ants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, eyes he reveals the cause of his sorrow,—the city, Through the silvery shade of the olive tree, which we have sinned against thee ; both I and My which is the place of his fathers' sepulchers, lying waste, No star-gemmed sceptre or crown it reveals father's house have sinned, We have dealt very cor- and its gates consumed with fire. The touching re- In the solemn shades of Gethsemane ; Only a form of prostrate grief, ruptly against thee, and have not kept the command- cital awakens the sympathy of the monarch without Fallen, crushed, like a broken leaf. ments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou arousing his idolatrous prejudices ; another question Oh, think of this sorrow, that we may know commandedst thy servant Moses." gives the opportunity which Neheiniah has long sought: The ,depth of love in the depth of woe I And now, taking fast hold, by faith, of the divine " For what dost thou make request ?" But the man Behold your King ! Is it nothing to you promise. Nehemiah lays down at the footstool of of God does not reply until he has first asked the sup- That the crimson tokens of agony heavenly mercy his petition that God would maintain port of One higher than Aartaxerxes. "I prayed," From the kingly brow must fall like dew, the cause of his now penitent people, restore their he says, " to the God of heaven." rhrough the shuddering shades of Gethsemane? Jesus himself, the Prince of life, strength, and build up their waste places. God had A precious lesson is this for all Christians. When- Bows in mysterious mortal strife. been faithful to his threatenings when his people sepa- ever we are brought into positions of difficulty or dan- Oh. think of this sorrow, that we may know rated from him ; he had scattered them abroad among ger, even when surrounded by those who love and fear The unknown love in the unknown woe I the nations, according to his word. And Nehemiah not God, the heart may send up its cry for help, 'and Behold your King, with his sorrow crowned I finds in this very fact an 'assurance that he will be there is One who has 'promised that he will come to Alone, alone in the valley is he I equally faithful to fulfill his promises. His people had our aid. This is the kind of prayer that Christ meant The shadows of death are gathering round, now returned in penitence and faith to keep his com- when lie said, " Pray without ceasing." We are not And the cross must follow Gethsemane. mandments; and God himself had said that if they would Darker and darker the gloom must fall, to make ejaculatory prayer a substitute for public or Filled is the cup—he must drink it all I do this, even though they were cast out into the utter- family worship, or for secret devotion ; but it is a Oh. think of his sorrow, that we may know most part of the earth, he would gather them thence, blessed resource, at our command under circumstances His wondrous love in his wondrous woe ! and would cause the light of his countenance again to when other forms of prayer may be, impossible. Toilers —Frances Ridley Havergal. shine upon them. This promise had been given more in the busy marts of trade, crowded and almost over- than a thousand years before ; but it had stood un- whelmed with financial' perplexities, travelers by sea changed through all the centuries. God's word can- and land, when threatened by some great danger, can 6tureat gVxtido„ not fail. thus commit themselves to divine guidance and pro- Nehemiah's faith and courage strengthen as he tection. And in every circumstance and condition NEHEMIAH DESIRES TO RESTORE grasps the promise. His mouth is filled with holy of life the soul weighed down with grief or care, or as- JERUSALEM. arguments. He points to the dishonor that would be sailed by temptation, may thus find comfort, support, cast upon God, were his people, now that they have and succor in the unfailing love and power of a cov- BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. returned to him, to be left in their state of weakness enant-keeping God. NEHEMIATI, the Hebrew exile, occupied a position of and oppression. Nehemiah and Artaxerxes stand face to face,—the influence and honor in the Persian Court. As cup- Nehemiah had often poured out his soul thus before one a servant, of a. down-trodden race, the other the bearer to the king, he was familiarly admitted to the God in behalf of his people. Day and night had he monarch of the world's great empire. But infinitely royal presence, and by virtue of this intimacy, and his offered this prayer. And as he prayed, a holy purpose greater than the disparity of rank is the moral distance own high abilities and tritel fidelity, he became the had been-forming in his mind, that if he could obtain which separate s them. Nehemiah has complied with the monarch's counselor. Yet in that heathen land, sur- the consent of the king. and the necessary aid in pro- invitation of the King of kings, " Let him take hold rounded by royal pomp and splendor, he did not forget curing implements and material, he would 'himself of my strength, that he may make peace w ith me, and the God of his fathers, or the people who had been in- undertake the arduous task of rebuilding the ruined he shall make peace with me." He has enlisted in his trusted with the holy oracles. With deepest interest, walls of Jerusalem, and seeking to restore the national behalf a power in whose hand is the heart of kings, even his heart turned toward Jerusalem, and his hopes and strength. And now in closing his prayer he entreats as the rivers of Water, and who " turneth it whither- joys were bound up with her prosperity. the Lord to grant him favor in the sight of the king, soever he will." The silent petition sent. up to heaven Days of peculiar trial and affliction had come to the that this cherished plan may be carried out. was the same that he had offered for many weeks, that chosen city. Messengers from Judah. described to For months he was compelled to wait for a favor- God would prosper his request. And now, taking Nehemiah its condition. The second temple had been able opportunity to present his request to the king. courage at the thought that he has a Friend, omnis- reared, and portions of the city rebuilt ; but its pros- During this period, while his heart was oppressed with cient and all-powerful, to work it; his behalf, the man perity was impeded, the temple services disturbed, and grief, he constantly endeavored-to carry a cheerful and of God calmly makes known to the king his desire to the people kept in constant alarm, by the fact that its happy countenance. In his seasons of retirement, be realeased for a time from his office at the court, and walls were still in ruins, and its gates burned with many were the prayers, the penitential confessions, and be authorized to build up the waste places of Jerusalem, fire. The capital of Judah was fast becoming a deso- the tears of anguish, witnessed by God and angels ; and to make it once more a strong and defenced city. late place, and the few inhabitants remaining were but all this •was concealed from human sight. The Momentous results to the Jewish city and nation hung daily embittered by the taunts of their idolatrous as- regulations of Eastern courts forbade any manifesta- upon this request. And, says, Nehemiah, "the king . sailants, " Where is your God ?" The soul of the tion of sorrow within them. All must appear gay and granted me according to the good hand of my God upon Hebrew patriot was overwhelmed by these evil tidings. happy in those halls of luxury and splendor. The dis- me." So great was his sorrow that he could not eat or drink ; tress without was not to cast its shadow in the presence While Nehemiah implored the help of God, he did he " wept and mourned certain days, and fasted." of royalty. not fold his own hands, feeling that he had no more But when the first outburst of his grief was over, he But at last the sorrow that burdened Nehemiah's care or responsibility in the matter. With admirable turned in his affliction to the sure Helper. " I prayed," heart could no longer be concealed. Seeepless nights prudence and, forethought he proceeded to make all the 98 BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES. VoL. 3, No. 7. arrangements necessary to ensure the success of the " A wonderful instance of this spiritual blindness is whether our affections have a holy tendency, and enterprise. Every movement was marked with great given us in the very celebrated work of a late eminent produce the happy effects of obedience to God, caution. He did not reveal his purpose even to his writer, who supposes that the New Jerusalem came humility in ourselves, and justice to our fellow- own country-men ; for while they would rejoice in his down from heaven when Constantine called himself a creatures." success, he feared that they might, by some indiscre- Christian ! I say, called himself a Christian, for I Says the apostle: " Set your affection on things tion, greatly hinder his work. Some would he likely dare not affirm that he was one any more than Peter above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, to manifest a spirit of exultation which would rouse the the Great. I cannot but believe he would have come and your life is hid with Christ in God." Why- is it jealousy of their enemies, and perhaps cause the defeat nearer the mark if he had said that it was the time so hard for some to part friendship with the world and of the undertaking. when a huge cloud of infernal brimstone and smoke become friends of God, to raise the affections above As his request to the king had been so favorably re- came up from the bottomless pit ; for surely there never "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the ceived, he was encouraged to ask for such assistance as was a time wherein Satan gained so fatal an advantage pride of life" ?—Oh, they are not dead to the world I was necessary to carry out his plans. To give dignity over the church of Christ as when such a flood of riches Their life is not hid with Christ in God ; if it were, and authority to his mission, as well as to provide for and honor and power broke in upon it, particularly on they would find objects of heavenly birth, all glorious, protection on the journey, he secured a military escort. the clergy."—Facts for the Times. attractive, and lovely, for their affections to twine He obtained royal letters to the governors of the around, and their thoughts to meditate upon. They provinces beyond the Euphrates, the territory through do not love the appearing of Him who is our life as which he must pass on his way to Judea ; and he ob- ORK T 0 G ET LER . they should, nor do they anticipate with joy the day tained, also, a letter to the keeper of the king's forest when all the saints shall appear with him in glory. Jr all men had the self-same mind, in the mountains of Lebanon, directing him to furnish And sought the same position, " Bright are the crowns that we hope soon to wear, such timber as was needed for the wall of Jerusalem The world would he, as you'll agree, Blessed the rest; 0, we long to be there !" and such buildings as Nehemiah proposed to erect. Chaotic in condition. 3. MEDITATION.—This faculty of the mind has an Nehemiah was careful to have the authority and privileges But some must sow, and some must reap, And some must plow the mighty deep ; important part to act in building up, solidifying, and accorded him clearly defined, that there might be no And some must wake while others sleep : balancing the mental man. Indeed, it may be said to room for complaint that he had exceeded his commission. Each has his given mission. be as irriportant here as are the digestion and assimila- The example of this holy man should he a lesson to And though they seek quite different paths tion of food to the physical system. Meditation " in all the people of God, that they are not only to pray En bright and cloudy weather, religion is used to signify time serious exercise of the in faith, but to work with diligence and fidelity. How And seem to stray, each his own way, understanding, whereby our thoughts are fixed on the many difficulties we encounter, and how we hinder the They really work together ; observation of spiritual things, in order to practice working of Providence on our behalf, because prudence, The one who weaves. the one who knits. The one who cuts. and he who fits, them." forethought, and painstaking are regarded as having Bound by a silken tether. As proper and healthful food tends to the develop- little to do with religion. This is a grave mistake. It ment of a strong and vigorous body, so suitable matter is a religious duty to cultivate and to exercise every 'Tis thus the great world thrives and grows, As each man helps his brother ; for thought and meditation tends to the development power which will render us more efficient workers in The great and small, the short and tall, of a wise and prudent mind. On this point we have the cause of God. Careful consideration and well- They all help one another ; some worthy Scriptural examples and precepts. Please matured plans are as essential to the success of sacred For some must print, and some must fold, read Psalms 1 : 2 ; 63 : 6 ; 77 : 12. Again says And some must carve, and some must mould, enterprises to-day as in the time of Nehemiah. if all David, "I remember the days of old ; I meditate on who are engaged in the work of God would realize how And some count silver, scrip, and gold, Each one pursuit or other. all thy works ; I muse on the work of thy Lands." much depends upon their fidelity and wise forethought, Meditation upon the works of God fills the most Then banish envy from your hearts, we should see far greater prosperity attend their efforts. profound intellects and minds of the loftiest aspirations Through diffidence and backwardness we often fail to And keep your soul well lighted ; The world should be, as you'll agree, with profound admiration and untold joy. In all secure that which is attainable as a right, from the At peace and all united. things, from the dewdrop that trembles on the leaf to powers that be. God will work for us, when we are The water-course will turn the wheel, the vast expanse of the ocean's rolling waters; friar' ready to do what we can and should do on our part. The mill will grind the corn and meal, the spire of grass or tiny flower to the towering mount- Men of prayer should be men of action. Nehemiah And God will reign through woe and weal, And every wrong be righted. ains, the grand, stately trees of the forest, or the does not depend upon uncertainties. The means which —Se/. myriads of worlds which fill the immensity of space, he has not he solicits from those who are able to bestow. we read of the handiwork of God; and as we read, All the world, with its riches and treasures, belongs to BIBLE CONVERSION AND GROWTH IN every intelligent, devout heart joins with infinite Wis- God, although it is now in the possession of worldly GRACE. dom in pronouncing the -a " very good." Yea, we men. If his servants take a wise and prudent course, anticipate the song of the redeemed, and exclaim, so that the good hand of God' may be with them, they SANCTIFICATION AS TAUGHT IN THE SCRIPTURES. " Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God can obtain the means they need to advance his cause. WE now proceed to notice some of the faculties, or Almighty ; just and true are thy ways, thou King of • 4.- powers of the mind, all of which will bear unmistakable saints." evidence of having experienced the work of sanctifica- HOW ERRORS ARE PERPETUATED. As Christian men and women, as ministers of the tion, when the spirit shall be wholly sanctified. gospel, we should meditate upon our solemn work amid 1. THE PowER or CHOICE.—This is a principle the preparation of heart to engage in it. The spiritual WHEN truth, long hidden, first begins to shine out, possessed by every accountable being. And while our father of Timothy, in writing to him of - his personal some object, and ask, "Why has not this been found heavenly Father has in the plan of salvation sur- preparation for the ministry, his work, and his gift, out before ? Is it to be supposed that so many learned rounded us with every possible aid and inducement to exhorts him thus : " Meditate upon these things give and good men would fail to see it if true ?" lead us to choose that which is right, to walk in the thyself wholly to them ; that thy profiting may appear The Rev. Lyman Abbott, in the Christian Union, way of life, and thereby secure endless bliss, and escape to all." 1 Tim. 4 : 15. gives the following very clear explanation of the diffi- the , second death, the power of choice lies in the 4. MENORY.—This faculty of the mind presents to culty :— heart of each person. Life and death are set before us ideas and views of the past, and makes them real "There are many instances in which the Biblical com- us. The words of Inspiration are, " Choose ye this and present. If this faculty were sanctified, no doubt mentators appear to have derived their ideas respecting day whom ye will serve." To the Jews the Saviour heavenly truths and divine things could be remembered Scripture teaching from previous scholars in the same said, " Ye will not come to me, that ye might have much better. Persons of •‘ such a poor memory" re- field ; the same thought is often traceable from genera- life." John 5 : 40. member many things they should not. It is to be tion to generation, from ancient Father to English We may choose the channel in which our thoughts regretted that many, old and young, can remember so divine, and thence to our latest Sunday-school com- shall run,—whether they shall be holy, dwelling on little of a subject they may read, or the nature of a mentary. And sometimes, just as counterfeit bills pass things pure, elevated, noble, and heavenly; or shall sermon they may hear preached, which is one con- unquestioned because they are well worn, erroneous in- be low, dissolute, unrestrained, and sinful. And tinuous chain of valuable thought. The apostle seemed terpretations pass current in the Christian church, as the thoughts are, so will our words and actions be to realize this when he wrote to his Hebrew brethren: without ever being subjected to a careful scrutiny ; be- moulded ; " for out of the abundance of the heart the " Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to cause each new student takes it for granted that the mouth speaketh." The importance of an early choice the things which we have heard." The aged and very student who has preceded him, and from whom he re- of the way of life and obedience cannot be too highly feeble may not be able to remember as once they could; ceives the interpretation, has done this work of investi- estimated. " Choosing rather to suffer affliction with but if they have grown in grace so they have not gation, and he only needs to report the results." the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin "forgotten" that they were " purged from their old The Christian Statesman published a portion of a for a season," and giving attention to securing the sins," they should be thankful and take courage; paper read by Rev. A. T. Pierson, D. D., before the " recompense of reward," are prompted by the highest for the word of God profits them as it runs through the Ministerial Union of Philadelphia, containing the fol- degree of heavenly wisdom. " Seek ye first the king- mind. lowing :-- dom of God, and his righteousness," is the injunction It is as lamentable as true that the great majority " We are often fettered by our denominationalism. of Him who knew the blessedness of obedience, and the of professed Christians have so far forgotten the only Brought up to exalt our sectarian standards and views certainty and unspeakable value of the overcomer's commandment in the decalogue which contains the and politics, we sometimes degenerate into religious reward. word and command " remember," as to entirely disre- partisans and politicians, espousing our sect because it 2. AFFECTIONS.—These, in the progressive work of gard the day that God blessed and sanctified to keep is our sect. We stand by our colors, whether it is the sanctification, must be supremely set on God, his work, in memory his creative works. They talk and sing of color of the blood or not We preach and teach what and his law. Dart. 6 : 4, 5 ; Ps. 19 : 8-10. Affec- sanctification, claiming to enjoy it, and trample his we find in our denominational standards, whether or tion brings the mind to bear upon the object of its Sabbath under foot, with his word blazing before them : not we can give an intelligent Scriptural reason for our choice. Affections, as they respect religion, have been " I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me position. Have we the boldness to face opposition and defined to be the " vigorous and sensible exercise of the and them, that they might know that I am the Lord ridicule for the sake of the truth ? And if a candid, inclinations and will of the soul toward religious that sanctify them." Eze. 20 : 12. We have shown careful. searching of the word should compel us to be- objects." Another says : "Now in order to ascertain that it is not the office of the Spirit alone to sanctify lieve that our denominational position is unscriptural in whether our affections are excited in a spiritual manner, the believer: any respect, would we simply follow the light God we must inquire whether that which moves our affec- 5. IMAGINATION.—This ability certainly needs the might give us, or consent to silence and compromise tions be truly spiritual; whether our consciences be moulding hand of sanctification laid upon it. For with w th conscience ?" alarmed, and our hearts impressed ; whether the many it is seriously inclined to make trouble in the The following testimony, found in " Wesley's Ser- judgment be enlightened, and we have a preception of family of faculties, in the household, and in the neigh- mons," vol. 2, p. 97, is to the point :— the moral excellency of divine things ; and lastly, borhood ; and it has been known to make mischief in JULY, 1888. 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the church. We have heard of it of old, and its evil blessed my labors in his cause, therefore I niust be sorest need is the presence of another and a higher work. Gen. 6 : 5. The flood did not wash it from working in the right way ? Many think so ; but what power, which, coming not, will leave him but disaster the earth (G-en. 8 : 21), but it can, by the grace of does Jesus say ? " Many will say to me in that day, and defeat. God, be brought into subjection and into obedience to Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name ? This human if is the language of regret. How the will of Christ. 2 Cor. 10 : 5. and in thy name have cast out devils ? and in thy often we hear it,—/f I had only given that other 6. THE JUDGMENT.—The fear and service of God name done many wonderful works ? And then will I remedy, if I had only changed physicians, or if I had are not calculated to make men wild and fanatical, nor profess unto them, I never knew you ; depart from not changed them ; if I had only trusted those to unbalance them, taking away their judgment. " Be- me, ye that work iniquity." Matt. 7 : 22, 23. How promises, or if I had not trusted them. If, if, if,— hold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; and to appropriate the warning : " To the law and to the but you have done as you did. You cannot change depart from evil is understanding." Job 28 : 28. "A testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it the facts, sad as they may be. But regret cannot good understanding have all they that do his com- is because there is no light in them." help looking sadly back and muttering this comfortless mandments." The fear of God, then, which leads to The attention of a Sunday-school teacher was once if, if. the keeping of his commandments, does not dethrdne called to this text, with many other texts concerning Also this human if is the language of reproach. reason, but rather strengthens, informs, and sanctifies the seventh day, which God has hallowed, blessed, and In many cases it should be the language of reproach. the judgment. One who has this fear has a reason sanctified as his holy Sabbath. After examining Where the if points toward results that might have for his faith and hope, based upon God's revealed will, them, he replied that it was true, and that he never been foreseen and ought to have been provided against, —his sure word, the rock of truth, which is as much knew before that there were so many blessings it should mean terrible and lashing reproach. Here is more valuable as a test of - the genuine work of sanc- promised to those who keep it, and so many curses to a young man standing on the threshold of life. He is tification in the heart, than emotional and sensational those who trample it under foot, and that he would solicited by temptation. He will yield, he says. He feelings are, as wheat is more valuable than chaff. henceforth keep God's command regarding it. But does yield. He is warned. He goes on yielding. " Search the Scriptures." when next we met, in answer to our inquiry he said He flatters himself that though such things as he is 7. THE WILL.—This king of all the faculties may, that if he kept the Sabbath, he would have to separate doing do hurt other men, they will not hurt him. He and must, be brought to experience the power of sanc- himself from the church to which he belonged, and he knows that he has laid to his soul the flattering unction tifying grace, or the work is but partially done on the thought he was doing a good work there. Now if of a lie. But he goes on yielding. Time goes on too, mind; and when this is accomplished, the child of God what God has said, and repeated to us by Jesus,- is and he begins to reap the harvest of the seed he has can say with the suffering Redeemer, " Nevertheless, true, what becomes of such persons and their work ? been sowing. His reputation shrivels because he has not my will, but thine be done." Luke 22 : 42. And In Rev. 18 : 4, God says : " Come out of her, my honey-combed his character. He ought to be in the again, " I seek not mine own will, but the will of the people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that fullness of a manly prime, in the noon of his strength Father which hath sent me." And this implies a ye receive not of her plagues." Who are God's and faculty, but he is really aged before his time, and submission and reconciliation of all the faculties of the people ? Where are they ? We turn to the trembling and unable. He looks back, and his re- mind to God. Unspeakably blest is the man brought several churches to whom God addresses this call— proach must be this if. He is obliged to say, "If I to this state of communion with his Maker I Here " Come out of her, my people." He foresees the danger had not yielded. If I had not burned my youth- may we work out our " own salvation with fear and of all who remain in ignorance of " the law and the hood out so that my manhood has no substance it can trembling. Fer," says the • apostle, " it is God which testimony," and has moved upon the hearts of thou- draw upon." The saddest thing in the wide world is worketh in you both to will and to do of his good sands to obey the call. this rightfully and terribly reproachful word, if. pleasure." Phil. 2 : 12, 13. See to it, then, that your foundation is Jesus Christ, But - the question comes, Is this all there is for us This brings us to the consideration of the second and that you build upon it, according to the command- in our poor lives—Martha's sad, wondering, finite, step in the work of sanctification, which will be the ments, of God, not according to the traditions of men, regretful if ? If it be, there is small comfort in it ; subject of our next article. A. S. lInTeruNs. that it may be said of you, as Jesus said of Nathanael, there is small courage in it ; there is slight foundation " Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile" for our poor lives to stand on. REWARD AND LOSS. (John 1 : 47); and that you may finally be numbered It is to this helpless, comfortless if, much of the among the overcomers, who have their Father's name modern thinking would shut us up. Professor Huxley " Other foundation eau no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus written in their foreheads, and sing as it were a new says: " Life is a chessboard, and men are players; and Christ. Now if any nuns build upon this foundation, g..1d, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, every man's work shall be made manifest ; for song before the throne, and who follow the Lamb if, even with the best inteni ions ill time world, you the day shall dealare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire whithersoever he goeth, Rev. 14 : 1-4. H. make a false move, there is nothing for you but the shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he bath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any consequences. No hope, no meaning, no goal. man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be Nothing for you but sorrow if you have mistaken or saved, yet so as by fire." 1 Cor. 3 : 11-15. THE HUMAN IF. sinned." THE reason for this admonition is given in the first But thank God, we are not left to modern thinking. four verses of this chapter. " I, brethren, could not How pathetic these words of Martha, " Lord, if " Therefore his sister sent unto him, saying, Lord, be- speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, you hadst been here, my brother had not died." How hold, he whom thou lovest is sick." even as unto b mbes in Christ. I Inve fed you with certainly human is that if. Let• us think about it a When Jesus- heard this, he said, " This sickness is riot unto death, milk, and not with meat; for hitherto ye were not able little. but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye -are It is the language of finiteness. Finiteness must he glorified thereby." Here is God's answer to the if yet carnal; for whereas there is among you envying dwell in the mood subjunctive. It cannot dwell in of Martha. 0 soul, concerning many things, you, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk the mood indicative, the mood _of certainty and with, your short sight, must say if. But in it all and as men ? For while one saith, I am of Paul, and decision. Man is very greet and strong; but he is not through it all, God has meaning—his glory, your highest another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal ?" From so great or strong that he is not sure, sooner or later, good. It was better that Lazarus should die and this we learn the under-current which moved these to come to the limit of his strength and be obliged to then by -the word of Christ be raised, than that he brethren: the inspired apostle saw where they were say this human if. should get well, and those sisters and all of us miss drifting, and pointed, them to the fire that shall try " Moscow ! Moscow !" the French soldiers shouted. that resurrection. This is God's answer to our ifs every man's work of what sort it is. They shouted it almost as shipwrecked sailors shout. Through what you are questioning so sadly, I am These words should be studied by every Christian The harbor. They had traversed the dreary plains of weaving glorious culmination. with earnest desire, on beaded knees before the Searcher Lithuania. They had been fighting with fearful losses , There is only one if concerning which this cannot of all hearts, that it may be revealed now of what and against fearful odds. This was time limit of their be said, namely, the rightfully reproachful. And yet for sort ids work is. For the Scriptures plainly teach the long and terrible battling. They had reached the long, that there is forgiveness, and if into the results of that solemn fact that our works maybe such as will riot low line of the Sparrow Hills, and, gazing down on the we introduce the new force, Jesus Christ, he will some- bear the scrutiny of God's all-searching eye, that they flat landscape, they saw far off the glittering domes how change even that darkness into day. may be accounted worthless, and we- suffer loss. and minarets of Moscow.. No wonder they of the legions When we are cast into the saying of these ifs, let This is illustrated by our Saviour's word to the shouted. So again the star of their great leader had us lighten our gloom by thinking more of God and-less Pharisees : " Take heed that ye do not your alms shone undimmed. So once more he had led them of them. before men, to be seen of them; otherwise ye have no through victory unto rest. Moscow was their rest. Let us get the mastery over our human if by sub- of your Father which is in heaven." And But how mistaken they were ! Great as their leader reward mission to the will of God. again : " They love to pray standing in the synagOgues was, he had not thought of fire. He had not thought - and in the corners of the streets, that they may be the Russian purpose possible to give their sacred and " I have no cares, 0 blessed will, For all my cares are thine. seen of man. Verily -I say unto you, They have their ancestral city to the flames. But the flames changed I live in triumph, Lord, for thou reward." Matt. 6 : 1-5. But it is also recorded of a their victory to ashes, and then that retreat amid the Hast made thy triumph mine." good man : " Thy prayers and thine alms are come up snows of a Russian winter followed, which for terror Let us by rational choice make God the center of our for a memorial before God." Acts 10 : 4. Thus we and destruction has been unparalleled in history. lives, and not our self-strength or skill, the best word see that the same duty may be as the enduring precious " Sire," a woman had dared to say to the great for which is this poor if. This is God's message : stone on the one hand, or the worthless stubble on the Napoleon, as he went haughtily forth on this great Choose me, and all things shall work together for other. So of all sel f-imposed notions which we expedition, " man proposes, but Providence disposes." good—there shall- really be no if about them.— substitute for God's commands, which so many are " 1 propose and dispose too," answered the victor of a illustrated Christian Weekly, building on the foundation Jesus Christ. The word hundred fights. And then even for him the if; if he of God declares them to be wood, hay, stubble, which had not undertaken the conquest; if he had not dared FIGHTING A GOOD FIGHT. shall be burned up. such a season; if he had foreseen the .possibility of This warning comes with redoubled force in these such a desperate conflagration. A STINGY Christian was listening to a charity ser- last days, when in all classes of society there are so The truth is, this human if belongs to finiteness. mon. He was nearly deaf, and was accustomed to sit many who have a ‘• form of godliness," but deny It is God only who need never say it. How strong facing the congregation, right under the pulpit, with " the power thereof," the very conditions that produce soever a man may think himself ; what 'confidence his ear-trumpet directed upward toward the preacher. the class of work spokennf as wood, hay, and stubble. soever he may put in his well-laid plans; how puissant The sermon moved him considerably. At one time he The question may arise in some mind (the Lord grant soever he may imagine his, brain and arm—some said to himself, " I'll give ten dollars ;" again he said, that it may be so), How shall I know that my work is decision which must take into account that future into "I'll give fifteen dollars." At the close of the appeal of a more enduring nature ? God has graciously whose thick mists his eye cannot pierce, some com- he was very much moved, and thought ho would give anticipated your question : " To the law and to the plication or danger concerning which his sagacity fifty 'dollars. Now the boxes were passed. As they testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it cannot make estimate, will force him into the moved along, his charity began to ooze out. He came is because there is no light in them." Isa. 8 : 20. utterance of this helpless and torturing if. Like down from fifty to twenty, to ten, to five, to zero. He Does the thought arise in your mind, God has often Mary and Martha, he will find himself where his concluded that he would not give anything. "Yet," 100 BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES. VOL. 3, No. 7

said lie, " this won't do ; I am in a bad fix. This cov- fourth commandment. The twenty-ninth canon of the the sixteenth century keeping Saturday, the seventh- etousness will be my ruin." The box was getting council reads as follows : " Because Christians ought day Sabbath, as they affirm, " in obedience to Christ nearer and nearer. The crisis was upon him. What not to Judaize, and to rest on the Sabbath, but to and his holy apostles," and Sunday, the first day of should he do ? The box was now under his chin ; all work in that day. Preferring in honor the Lord's the week, " in memory of Christ's resurrection ;" little the congregation were looking. He had been holding day; if they -desire to rest, they should do this as dreaming that during their long isolation. the seventh his pocket-book in his hand during the soliloquy, Which Christians. Wherefore if they shall be found to day of the fourth commandment had become "the first was half audible, though in his deafness he did- not Judaize, let them be accursed from Christ." From day of. the week." know that he was heard. In the agony of the final this it is evident that the learned men who constituted One can scarcely realize that a man will deliherately moment he took his pocket-book and laid it in the box, this council knew nothing of the " new dress" of whieh advocate a theory that has never made the acquaintance., saying to himself, as he did it, " Now squirm, old Mr. A. speaks; for had they possessed this knowledge, of either Scripture, reason, or logic. The conclusions natur' !" they would not have made a distinction between assumed by Mr. A. can never be reached by legitimate Here is a key to the problem of covetousness. " Old Saturday, the seventh-day " Sabbath," and Sunday, reasoning. They are the result of fallacies, as I will natur'" must go under. It will take great giving to " the first day of the week," called by them " the Lord's now show. put stinginess down. A few experiments of putting day." He refers to the Mosaic record of creation and shows in the whole pocket-book may, by-and-by, get the heart Ant ther interesting and important fact that has a that the evening precedes the day. This is true ; the into the charity-box, and then the cure is reached. All direct bearing upon the subject before us, is the day begins at sunset and ends at sunset according to honor to the deaf old gentleman. He did a magnificent history of the Christian churches in Ethiopia. and Scripture. He adds : " Our time is Roman time, so thing for himself, and gave an example worth imitating, Abyssinia, which possibly dates from the conversion far as the order of the day is concerned." This is also besides pointing a paragraph for the students of human of the Ethidpian officer "of great authority" (Acts true ; instead of reckoning the day from sunset, we nature.—Good Words, 8 : 26-40), but certainly as early as 330 A.D. See begin to count at mic'ilight, about six hours later. He "M'Clintock and Strong's Cyclopedia," vol. 1, p. 40. continues : " The evening of the first day has never " THE SABBATH QUESTION, AND THE The nations of Europe lost sight of these churches been altered." This cannot be true. The week forms RESURRECTION ON THE MORNING about the time the Roman bishop ascended the a cycle ; and if one part is changed, all must undergo OF THE THIRD DAY." pontifical throne. Mr. Gibbon, the historian, speak- a similar change. To illustrate : if all the evenings ing of these Christians, says : "Encompassed on all were changed except Sunday evening, then that day A REVIEW sn'es by the enemies of their religion, the Ethiopians would of necessity have an evening at its beginning THE Sword and Shield of March 16 contains an slept for nearly a thousand years, forgetful of the and another at its close ; and the day before would be article on the above subject, written by one J. world, by whom they were forgotten."—Decline and left without any. All can see that his position is Attenborough, who thinks he has discovered a " new full, chap. 47. In 1534 the ambassador of the king wrong. I f the other evenings have been changed, thing under the sun." See E eel. 1 : 9. of Ethiopia. at the court of Lisbon stated their faith Sunday evening must have undergone the same change. He sums up his arguments as follows : •• The on tie Sabbath question, in the following words : In pricking this bubble, we have removed the corner- Sabbath we are observing under a new name, now " Because God, after he had finished the creation of stone of his argument, since it is of vital importance called the first day of the week, is the same day that the world, rested thereon; which day, as God would to him that his readers believe that the period now God set apart at the creation of the world. . . . have it called the holy of holies, so the not celebrating called " Sunday evening" is the same as in the time Our Sabbath is the old one in a new dress." thereof with great honor and devotion seems to be of Misses. - Let us examine the history of this wonderful day. plainly contrary to God's will and precept, who will He then asks the question, " Have we got the morn- The weekly cycle is divided into seven periods of suffer heaven and earth to pass away sooner than his ing of Sunday before the evening of Sunday ?" He twenty-four hours each, which are known as days. 'word; and that especially since Christ came not to continues : " Any child knows that we are observing God employed the first and five subsequent days of the deatrcy the law, but to tulfill it. It is not, therefore, the morning before the evening." Wliy does- he use week in the la bur of creation. The seventh and last in, imitation of the Jews, but M obedience to Christ such ambiguous language ? Why does he not was blessed by God and set apart for man. Compare and his holy apostles, that we observe that day. We explain that it is called Sunday morning for about six Gen. 2 : 2, 3 with Ex. 20 : 8-11 ; Mark 2 : 27. observe the Lord's day, after the manner of all other hours before the Sunday sunrise, and Sunday night fur Over 2,000 years later, we find Israel, having just Christians, in memory of Christ's resurrection."— about six hours after Sunday sunset ; and thus the light thrown off the Egyptian yoke, encamped in the Church History of Ethiopia, pp. 87, 88. These portion of Sunday occurs between the two dark portions? wilderness of Sin. There they kept the "old Christians, who were brought to the knowledge of the Why does he not explain to his readers that the dis- Sabbath." " So the people rested on the seventh world by the discovery of Portuguese navigators, in the tinction between the Mosaic and Roman methods of day." Ex. 16 : 30. One month later they encamped latter part of the fifteenth century, were found to be reckoning the days is, that in the former all the night at the foot of Mt. Sinai, where God, with hiS own keeping Saturday as the Sabbath of the fourth com- preceding the daylight is spoken of as the evening be- voice, spoke the moral law to Israel, one precept of mandment, and- Sunday to commemorate the resurrec- longing to that day, while in the latter that dark por- which was given to guard the seventh-day Sabbath. tion of Christ. It is ouly necessary to add, that they tion which precedes the daylight is seldom referred to, It reads as follows : " REMEMBER the Sabbath day to must have been wholly unacquainted with both Mr. and the evening of the day is understood to be the in- keep it holy. . . The SEVENTH DAY is the Attenborough's theology and his method of comput- terim between sunset and 12 o'clock ? Hence to change Sabbath of the Lord thy God." He also gave his ing time. the reckoning of the days from the Roman (the method reason for making the seventh day the Sabbath : Dr. Neander, who flourished in the sixteenth cen- now employed by nearly all nations) to the Mosaic, we For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, tury, speaks as follows upon the subject : " Opposition have but to reckon the beginning of the day about six the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on the to Judaism introduced the particular festival of Sunday hours sooner, or vice versa. For instance, we now seventh day ; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath very early indeed into the place of the Sabbath. . . reckon Sunday from 12 o'clock on what we call Satur- day, and hallowed it." Ex. 20 :8-11. From that The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was day night to 12 o'clock on what is called Sunday night. time to Christ, the seventh clay was recognized as the always only a human ordinance, and it was far from To change this to Mosaic time we would count Sunday Sabbath. Christ himself kept it. Luke 4 : 16; John the intention of the apostles to tstablish a divine com- from the time the sun sets on Saturday night until the 15 : 10. He said it "was made for man." Mark 2 : mand in this respect,—far from them, and from the Sunday sunset. The darkness following Sunday is no 27. The disciples kept it, still recognizing it in its early apostolic church, to transfer the laws of the part of ',hat day, according to the Mosaic reckoning. old " dress." Luke 23 : 56 ; Acts 13 :42, 44 ; 17 : 2; Sabbath to Sunday."—Church History, Rose's The only reason he can have for evading the plain 18 : 4, 11. No person with a reputation for scholar- Translation, p. 168. The ro,nglish historians, John facts is, that it would be fatal to his theory to bring ship will so far jeopardize it as to say that the word Ley, Prof. Berewood, of Gresham College, London, them to the front, and he seems to prefer sacrificing " Sabbath," in the New Testament, applies to the " new Sir Win. Domville, arid others, bear a similar testimony his readers rather than his theory. dress," " the first day of the week." Hence wher- on this subject. His next argument is as follows : " As all chronolo- ever the weekly Sabbath is referred to in the Scriptures, We have now briefly traced the Sabbath through gers, scientists, end church authorities are agreed that it means the seventh day, the old " dress." its entire history; and found that the "old Sabbath" Sunday evening is the evening of the first day of the The evangelists wrote their Gospels during the first has ever been the seventh day of the week. Yet Mr. week, if 'they will put the morning after evening, century, the last being written in A.D. 96. All four A. tells his readers that Sunday, " the Sabbath we which is the Mosaic time, I will demonstrate," etc. It of them speak of the resurrection as having taken are now observing, . . . called the first day of is not difficult to show the fallacy of this position. place on "the first day of the week." The first three the week, is the same day that God set apart at the The reader will notice that he says all " chronolog•ers, speak of the Sabbath as the day preceding the creation of the world. scientists, and church authorities are agreed that Sun- resurrection. See Matt. 28 : 1 ; Mark 16 : 1, 2; Luke It is strange that the seventh day should leave its day evening is the evening of the first day of the 23 : 56 ; 24 : 1; John 20 : 1, 19. Mr. A. says that place in the weekly cycle, and, stepping over, become week." He has already admitted that all are following " the first day of the week" is the Sabbath, and tries to the first day. Quite strange that Christians, who, the Roman method. Hence they are equally agreed • prove that Christ arose on the following day. Here centuries ago, were keeping Saturday to commemorate that all the time after 12 o'clock on what we call Sat- the statements of the four apostles and those of Mr. the creation, and in harmony with the fourth com- urday night belongs to Sunday, the first day of the Attenborough are antagonistic. Which of these mandment, and Sunday hr honor of the resurrection week. Thus he bases his premise on Roman time, and writers shall we accept, the apostles or Mr. A. ? of Christ, an event which took place on the first then proceeds to argue from this premise, basing his From the above it is evident that the Sabbath did not day of the week, should, apparently by common con- argument on the Mosaic system of reckoning time. assume the " new dress" during the first century. sent, and yet without the knowledge of any one of He says : " Which is Mosaic time." This is not Soon after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, them, drop back upon the previous day, still thinking legitimate. It is astonishing to find professing Chris- in A.D. 70, the Jews were dispersed among all the they were commemorating the resurrection. tians resorting to such sophistry. civilized nations of the earth; and they Went forth Very strange that the Jews, who were dispersed According to Roman time, the evening following the keeping the seventh day as the Sabbath. eighteen hundred years ago and are now found in nearly Sunday sunset is called Sunday evening, or the even- Again, all the reliable historians of the first three every city of the civilized world, should, by common ing of the, first day, and Monday, the • second day, centuries who mentioned the first day of the week, consent, and yet unknown to themselves, cease to ob- begins about six hours later at midnight ; but in chang- recognize it as the day upon which Christ arose from serve the seventh day (which they were keeping at the ing to the Mosaic reckoning, the second day (Monday) the dead, and the one following the " old Sabbath." time of their dispersion, and which has been one of the would begin about six hours earlier, or at Sunday sun- Thus we find Mr. A.'s positions antagonistic to those distinctive features of their nationality during their set. And the first day (Sunday), which, by Roman of the early church historians. entire history), and drop back upon Mr. A.'s sixth day. time, begins about six hours before the Sunday sun- An event of the fourth century demands a passing Exceeding strange that Christians of Ethiopia and rise, would, when changed to the Mosaic reckoning, notice. In the year 364 .&.n., the Laodicean council Abyssinia, who were lost to the civilized world, as well begin about six hours sooner, or at Saturday sunset. not only forbade the observance of the Sabbath, but as to the theological phantasms that sometimes haunt Thus all can see that in changing from Roman to even pronounced a curse on those who should obey the the minds of church-members, should be discovered in Mosaic time, and vice versa, the mornings undergo no JULY, 1888. 81aLt ECHO AND SIGNS OF' tHE 101 change, but the evenings do, notwithstanding Mr. ence of these. The public journals bear witness to it. SIN IS LAWLESSNESS. Attenborough's statements to the contrary. For a while, it seemed almost as if the world were at He then challenges " Seventh-day Adventists " to rest, as if its storms had spent themselves. But now WHAT is the exact nature of sin ? The word used explain the " three days and three nights " of Matt. all seems changed. Every day brings new indications by one of the New Testament writers signifies 12 : 40, on any other hypothesis. Why not call upon of disquietude and convulsion. Few nations seem etymologically lawlessness. A sinner is called an his own denomination, and, in fact, all others ; for all willing to draw the sword, yet every nation has her outlaw. Sin is to be reckoned only by a standard. and differ with him ? We will, however, take up the above hand upon the hilt. Over the whole earth is heard that standard is the immutable enactment of God's text in the next Euro. WILL D. .Cuans. " the long, low, distant murmur of dread sound." And will. Sin may be best defined as " any want of is not this the prelude to the last universal war ? Eze. conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God," 38 ; Zech. 14 ; Dan. 11 : 40-45 ; 12 : 1 ; Rev. 13 : That law is clearly revealed. 7 ; 16 : 12-46 ; 17 : 8-14 ; 19 : 11-14. Is it not a BEHIND the misty vale of years, We Call to mind an exquisite statue of Law, as we Close to the great salt fount of tears, sign of the near approach of Him, who, when earth's once saw it in the area out before an Eastern court of The garden lies. Strive as you may, madness and ambition are at their height=when the justice. Fair and majestic the figure rose in stone You cannot miss it on your way ; summoned nations are gathered at Armageddon, girt out of its lofty pedestal. Her head was covered with All paths that have been or shall be for battle and slaughter—himself appears for their dis- a helmet, to show that she was shielded when attacked. Pass somewhere through Gethsemane. comfiture and ruin ? Then, but not till then, wars All those who journey, soon or late In one hand she held a sharpened sword, to make Must pass within the garden gate— shall cease, and the weapons of war perish. Then, the known that she had power to punish. But with the Must kneel alone in darkness there, true Solomon shall begin his reign, hushing the tumults other she scattered gifts amono: the people; and her kind And battle with some fierce despair. of the nations, and introducing the long-expected Sab eye was always on the horn of plenty rather than on God pity those who cannot say, bath of this weary " work-a-day world." Rev. 19 : 20. -Not mine, but thine ; " who only pray, the edge of her weapon. And oh ! what gifts were "Let this cup pass," and do not see The restlessness of the world. This sign is in part these for human enjoyment. and need,—peace and The purpose in Gethsemane. connected with the preceding, yet may be viewed sepa- prosperity, arts and learning, commerce and manu- Gethsemane ! Gethsemane I rately. The state of the world is at present very om- God help us through Gethsemane. —Sel. factures, truth to men and purity to women and shelter inous. " Distress of nations, with perplexity ; . . . to children. Under her reign all was beneficence and men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking SIGNS OF THE NEARING ADVENT. quiet; life was tranquil, joyous, and noble. after those things that are coming on the earth." "And. Even this was beautiful—wondrously beautiful— " THE night cometh 1" Nor does it seem far off. then shall they see the Son of man corning in a cloud" only human law, yet gentle and just to all. But what It never appeared so nigh. The shadows are lengthen- (Luke 21 : 27), is God's picture of the state of man as marble could befit the image of divine law, or what ing out, and falling with ominous gloom upon the valleys the final crisis draws on. This seems our attitude at skill could fashion the figure of its benignant majesty of earth. The dimness of twilight is beginning to this moment, The earth, and the things that are —heaven come down bodily, with its serene order and make itself felt. Lt is settling down drearily upon our coming on it, attract the attention of all serious thinkers. peace on the earth, w 'tiring the regalia of God ! " The cities and on our solitudes ; upon the towers of our There is something in the state of the world so unset- law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the strength and the palaces of our pomp ; nor can the tled, so pregnant with uncertain evil, that every eye is testimony of the Lori is sure, making wise the simple. noisy rush of eager multitudes, hurrying to and fro for moving to and fro in expectation of strange issues, and The statutes of the L and are right, rejoicing the heart; gain or. pleasure, wholly stifle the utterance of fear and as if to catch the first sign of their approach. The the commit mdment of the Lord is pure,- enlightening awe. Men cannot help foreboding evil ; for who can form and color of the clouds forebode speedy change, the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for- tell them what may be in the womb of darkness ? The and threaten tempest to the nations. The time for ever; the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous night birds are already on the wing, flitting around us, listlessness and apathy is gone, altogether." " Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Years ago, when the skies were bright., and men and reminding us of the descending night. who walk in the law of the Lord." could promise themselves days of sunshine, it was safe Yet it is written also, " The day is at hand." The Into this vision of celestial peace come the rush enough to fold the hands and take our ease. But all night, though dark, will be brief, and will soon be suc- and tumult of war. Sin is defiance of divine law. this is over. No doubt, after the excitement of recent ceeded by a glorious day. But still of that day the Sin covets the sword rather than the horn of plenty. wars and revolutions, men would prefer repose. But night will be the forerunner. And this world's night If each sin had its first wish and legitimate result, it the onward swell of the waters stays not for an hour. is surely near. would overthrow the order of the universe, raise insur- There is among the nations a spirit of restlessness, The signs of Christ's second advent that have been rection, destroy government, and introduce anarchy anarchy, and insubordination, a passionate love of given us by the Lord and his apostles are both notable through all the ranks of intelligent existence. It would change, a headlong rush to overturn every established and numerous. And it is very evident that those have debase truth, debauch honor, fire baleful passion, lash system, too furious and united to be ultimately with- been selected which were the most expressive and the forward reinless desire, and kindle the world with the stood. Many call it but a passing tumult, the frenzy least ambiguous. They are chosen as being the most flames of hell. Hence sin is serious business. To of an hour ; but they who understand it know how prominent and explicit that could be given. It can- mock at it is to trifle with life and death, time and deep is the spring out of which it flows. The storm, not be thought that the least striking have been an- eternity; it is to jest with things highest and holiest., long gathering, but resisted by the barriers which an- nounced and the most striking concealed. If so, then things deepest and grandest. Let sailors look over cient Wisdom had erected for the stability of king- is it not very remarkable that the millennium of a the ship's side, and laugh at the mischievous insects doms, is concentrating and condensing its strength in thouSarld years (Rev. 20) is never mentioned as a sign which bore holes in the planks between them and the these venerable recesses, which may for a while refuse at nil ? If this was to take place before the second waves. Let miners smile at the children who pluck to yield tothe explosive force, but which, overstrained advent, how is it that it has never been alluded to as away the strands of the cable by which they hang over at length, give way to the accumulated pressure ; then one of the signs ? It would have been by far the most the unfathomable abyss of the shaft. But he that will the kingdoms of the earth be shivered, throne and distinct and visible. No one could overlook or mis- mocks when sinners defy the law of God is a fool. temple overturned, wall and fortress laid in ruins. Such take it. Yet nowhere, by prophet or apostle or by the " Fools make a mock at sin."—Sel. is the night which is to precede the long-looked-for Lord himself, is it noted as a sign. How can this be day when not only Israel but the whole earth shall accounted for, save upon the ground that it was to take arise and put on the garments of beauty, fit and meet THE Mohammedans of India are making desperate place after, not before, the advent ? If this be ad- for the personal presence of their glorious King.— efforts not only to sustain their present position, but to mitted, all is plain ; if it be denied, then let those who Boner. strengthen it by conversions. They have in Bombay deny it account for the fact that, among the many signs a special fund of 16,000 rupees for the support of new of the advent, the millennium is never mentioned as AN END OF WICKEDNESS. converts to Islam ; a house bought for 6,000 rupees, one. How the most palpable cf them all could be whose rent aids in supporting such converts ; and in omitted seems to me to require an explanation. On "Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end." Ps. 7 : 9. Lahore, about fifty rupees are collected each month for the post-millennial system, the omission seems to me THIS prayer was indited by the Holy Spirit. As a the support of open-air preachers of Islam. These Mo- inexplicable. For thus our Lord would be made to consequence, the petition will surely be granted. It is hammedans have their eyes open to all that is going profess to tell us the signs of his appearing, and yet to a prophetic prayer; and as a prophecy it is certain to on around them. They preach against Christianity in conceal the most notable of them all. have its fulfillment. Therefore it, is certain that the bazaars of nearly every important city and town in But this is not all. The signs which are given are wickedness will come to an end. The only question India ; they reply promptly to nearly everything of im- inconsistent with the idea of a millennium before the remaining is, How will this result be reached ? portance written against Mohammedanism ; and they second advent. Who that reads the Lord's prophecy There are but two ways possible for this to be ac- have five papers, all of which are ably edited, and are de- in Matt. 24, which begins with the destruction of Jeru- complished. voted to the defense of the claims of salem and ends with his second appearing in the clouds 1. The first is, by the conversion of all the wicked, Islam.—Interior. of heaven, does not feel that the whole drift of it was including the devil and his angels as well as all the 44. wicked of the earth. Have we any proof that all the to show the church that they were to expect sorrow, " I HAVE stood in a smith's forge, and seen him put wicked will cease their wickedness—that all will be- not joy, tribulation, not triumph, up to the time when a rusty, cold, dull piece of iron into the fire. and after come holy and happy in immortal life ? if there is he should return ? These signs were successive crests awhile he has taken the very same individual piece of no evidence to prove that all the wicked in the universe of the billows on which they were to be tossed, till he, iron out of the fire, hot, bright, and sparkling. And will be converted, the only alternative is- with his own voice and presence, should rebuke and thus it is with our bodies : they are laid down in the 2. That all the wicked will be destroyed, will cease calm the ocean. The simple omission, then, of the grave dead, heavy, earthly ; but at the resurrection to exist; and so their wickedness will conic to an end. millennium as a sign is a fact on which we ought to this mortal shall put on immortality ; at the general Is there any proof of this ?—There is. We cite lay much stress ; but the omission of it in circumstances conflagration this dead, heavy, earthly body shall another prophetic prayer as proof. Ps. 104 : 35 : which preclude the possibility of its being a thing re- arise, living, lightsome, glorious. Job was so confident " Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and served or merely unspoken, furnishes a strong argu- he declared, I know that my redeemer liveth," and let the wicked be no more." This prayer will be ment in proof of a pre-millennial advent. though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in answered; and when it is, the wicked will no longer Let me now note some of the signs which, in the my flesh shall I see God."—Spencer. present day, seem most remarkable as forerunners of exist; for " to be" means to exist. And in the pros- the Lord's appearing. And though of some of these pect of that happy time which will follow the destruc- it might be said that they have been found in former tion of all the wicked, when all in heaven and on earth Wnv should I start at the plow of my Lord, that days, yet others of them, as we shall see, are peculiar shall be heard saying, " Blessing, and honor, and maketh deep furrows on my soul'. I know he is no to our own. glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the. idle husbandman, he purposeth a crop. 0 that this 1. Wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes, pesti- throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever" (Rev. 5 stony, withered, barren ground were made fertile to lenees, and famines in divers places. Matt. 2-1 : 6, 7., 13), the inspired writer immediately exclaims, " Bless bear a crop for him by whom it is so painfully dressed, I need not enter minutely into the proof of the exist- thou the Lord, 0 my soul ! Praise ye the Lord!"—Sel. and that this fallow ground were broken up.

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COMMON DUTIES. Who ever saw a scolding woman with a pretty mouth, one of the hoops of the huge box, and the next moment or one of this class who had a sweet voice 7 She may a glittering pile of newly stamped gold coins rolled out IT is a noteworthy fact that the things most indis- sing with great skill and expression, but there will upon the floor of the cabin. The chest had been used pensable to our comfort we set the least value upon ; creep in a cat-like note that betrays itself. There is as a- sort of treasury box by the captain, and all of his while to many things which can, in themselves, really no foe to beauty equal to ill-temper. So, girls, be valuables were locked up in it. Besides gold and give comfort to no one we allot the highest place among warned in time, and if you are tempted to fall into this silver pieces of money, rich jewels and precious stones our treasures. Wood and iron contribute directly to evil way, put a cheek upon it at once, unless you are escaped from the brass-bound chest, and presented to the convenience and comfort of mankind ; while gold willing to belong to the class who are thoroughly the diver's gaze a rare sight. The light from his and silver, that men worship, are only remotely and unlovely in the eyes of others. small lamp, shining through the water, made the golden conditionally of any value at all. The mines of the Crow-feet do not seem to creep into sunny people's heap seem brighter than ever. earth are worth far more, filled, as they are, with coal, faces half so early as into those of the opposite tem- Exploring a sunken wreck is like visiting a sub- than if filled with diamonds. Those articles rif dress perament. Good humor, too, seems to give a bloom marine city, depopulated by a flood. The broken spars, and food which are purchased at least cost are abso- tc the complexion that no cosmetic can impart. There torn rigging, fallen masts, and blackened hulk, all lutely necessary to us ; but we seem to prize most the are women more really winning and fascinating in so- suggest the presence of death and destruction. Through superfluous luxury. -ciety at sixty than many a young woman of twenty. the black mass fishes of every size and species glide, We carry the same principle into all the departments A bright; cultured mind, joined with a thoroughly good, and around on the rocks and sand beautiful specimens of life. We see it at work in the intellectual life, benevolent heart, which rejoices to do good to others, of submarine flora and fauna grow. Huge sea-spiders where the so-called " accomplishments " are prized be- will make a person truly beautiful at any age. and a and crabs haunt those solitary depths, and make the yond the fundamentals of education, and are often favorite in any society.—Miriam, in Arthur's Home wrecks their abiding places, even as the lizards and sought at the expense of them. We see it at work in Magazine. reptiles of the land congregate in long-deserted houses social life, when to scrape an acquaintance with a pass- and make them their homes. Floating seaweed and ing stranger, or to win the condescending notice of a moss soon collect upon the spars and rigging, and in superior, weighs more in our thoughts than the tried Cult time the whole wreck is covered over with a light friendship of our companions. We see it at work in greenish mossy substance. the religious life, where eminent piety is thought better SHE ALWAYS MADE HOME HAPPY. The diver when walking under the sea is permitted demonstrated in a round of extraordinary performances to see some of the most beautiful and picturesque possible only to a few, than in fidelity in the common Ix an old churchyard stood a stone, scenes that the eye can imagine. For thirty feet be- duties of life. But in all this we are mistaken. It is Weather-marked and stained ; low the surface of the ocean the solar rays are dis- with duties as with commodities.—the more common The hand of time had crumbled it, tinctly visible through the watery mass, and all objects are in reality the more valuable. We esteem them So only part remained. are distinguished for several hundred feet around. little for the very reason that they are common. The Upon one side i could just trace : " In memory of our mother ; Beyond that the tints darken into fine gradations of things necessary to life God has made abundant, and An epitaph which spoke of " home ultramarine until they fade into vague obscurity. The therefore they have less commercial value than pearls; Was chiseled on the other. white sand, wrinkled as though each billow had left its but at the same time they possess an intrinsic value " She always made home happy," impression at the bottom of the sea, seems almost like infinitely greater. What are jewels to the man who A noble record left, a reflector. His lamp seems unnecessary in this is perishing with cold or hunger ? Cries the desert A legacy of memory sweet transparent fluid; but as he advances and the water traveller, fainting with thirst,— To those she loved bereft ; And what a testimony given increases in depth, darkness gradually settles around " 'Tis nothing but rubies ; him. Dark objects are soon outlined in the distance, Give me water, my God." By those who knew her best, Engraven on this plain, rude stone and the fine white sand is changed to a slimy mud, And think how wretched the world would be, if, with That marked the mother's rest. composed of equal Darts of silicious and calcareous all its prized accomplishments and achievements, man- A noble life I but written not shells. Flowers, plants, molluscs, prickly fungi, rocks kind were to neglect the common and every-day duties In any hook of fame ; and various colored shells seem to spring up from of domestic and social life I The refinements of the Among the list of noted ones every side, and the rays of the sun striking through poet, the orator, the sculptor, and the painter, may be None ever saw her name ; the water and shading these submarine wonders, form ranked in the scales of civilization with the precious For only her own household knew The vi, tories she had won, a perfect kaleidoscope of green, yellow, orange, violet, stones and metals ; that is, as necessary to an en- And none but they could testify indigo, and blue. Plains of sea-weed, of wild and lightened people and as holding the highest place in How well her work was done. luxuriant vegetation, make a carpet of unrivalled soft- man's estimation, but as having in reality a remote ness, while a perfect net-work of marine plants and rather than a direct bearing upon the true well-being of Better than costly monument Of marble rich and rare, sea-weed float over his head. Beautiful starfish, queer mankind. Is that rude stone whose humble face shell-fish, and variegated stones bedeck the rocks and In the wants of practical life a good nurse who can Such words of honor bear. bottom of the sea like precious gems. Thousands of Oh, may we chisel on the hearts alleviate pain and cool the fevered brow is of far fish of all varieties and fierceness swim around, in flocks greater worth than the silver-tongued orator. The Of those of home we love, An epitaph whose truth may be or singly, darting hither and thither after their prey, patient mother, whose faithful hands find no rest, but Witnessed for us above I —8el. or quietly watching the daring intruder. who toils incessantly to give health to the body and -I. I soul of her child, performs an undistinguished service, In the midst of these submarine wonders, and under EXPERIENCES OF DIVERS. but a more valuable one than many a poet has rendered. the arbors of rich plants and flowers, -the diver un- hesitatingly makes his way. His large head-dress has The service which in the great day bath its reward, is IN certain localities along the Atlantic coast vessels attention to the sick, the needy, and those who are in three small glass bull's-eyes, through which he can are wrecked nearly every winter. When a craft is once see on every side, and enjoy the beauties of his lonely prison. This is the service which the Master recognizes sunk in shallow water, efforts are made as soon as as done unto him. And where can we find a higher walk. His hands are perfectly - free, and his diving practicable, to relieve her of her cargo. This can be dress interferes with the freedom of his actions but appreciation of the value of small duties than in his done in one way only—by using the diving bell or - saying that a cup of cold water given to the thirsty is little. The twenty-five pounds of lead which are fas- diving-dress. The wrecking vessels, after making tened to the soles of his shoes becomes unnoticeable in an act that shall not lose its reward ? their soundings in the vicinity of the disaster, place Here is vast encouragement and comfort for the this denser atmosphere, and he walks with perfect buoys directly over the wrecked craft, which greatly freedom, only taking care to direct the rope and the air- many who grow weary with the constant pressure of helps the divers in their work. If strong ocean cur- common dunes, but whose faithful and painful labors tube which supplies him with the life-giving fluid, as he rents flow near the vessel, considerable risk and danger proceeds. are unappreciated and almost unnoticed. Theirs is to life is run by the divers. The rope secured to their the most valuable of all service. And in that world Occasionally divers are attacked by the large fish belt may be parted at any moment, and they left to which inhabit the deep. While exploring the bottom where men and their deeds pass on their intrinsic the mercy of the waves. In case of such a mishap, worth, it will often be found that what we call copper of the sea some distance from the shore, a few years their heavy dress would instantly carry them to the ago, an old, experienced diver was startled by a here will be called gold there; and that which we make bottom, and, the air-tube being disconnected by the glitter here will lose its lustre there. gigantic shadow which appeared just above his head. violent jerk, all chance of escape would be cut off. He understood the meaning of it immediately, and, " Then murmur not if toils obscure, And thorny paths be thine ; The experiences of a diver are many and interest- looking up, he saw an enormous shark advancing To God be true, they shall secure ing. After he has once reached the sunken vessel, diagonally toward him with jaws open and eyes on The joy of life divine." whether by being lowered straight down from the fire. He made an effort to spring to the surface —Conference Worker. wrecking craft or by walking along the bottom of the by inflating his air-dress, but he found it too late. He Imo . ocean to avoid currents, he must search through the then threw himself on one side to avoid the voracious TEMPER AND GOOD LOOKS. hull of the ship as though she were floating upon the creature's fins, which swept over him with a loud swish. surface of the water. To do this he curies a small The shark quickly returned, however. But the diver I RECENTLY heard a gentleman from India relate lamp with him, which gives out a peculiarly brilliant had prepared himself for battle during the brief delay. that the native women of the section where he, resided light when under the water, and makes the surround- As the monster threw himself upon his back the second had so few domestic labors, with no intellectual culture, ing objects glisten with all the colors .of the rainbow. time, the diver stepped aside to avoid the shock, and that gossip was their only resource. They were not Care must be taken that the air-tube does not get like lightning he grasped one of the creature's fins in secluded there as in some sections, and ran about from tangled up in any way, or cut by friction against the his left hand, and with the other he dealt him a house to house as they pleased. The results were the side of the vessel. Danger is also experienced from staggering blow with his dagger. The blood rushed same in India as in our land. So much gossip kept heavy pieces of timber, boxes, barrels, and even dead in torrents from the wound, and dyed the sea red, so neighborhoods in a constant ferment. There being no bodies, which are often floating around in the hold of that it was difficult to see through the opaque mass. principle to restrain their tongues, it was almost in- a sunken vessel. The monster fish, pained by the blow, lashed the sea credible the rate at which they ran, and the violence of A diver, once telling of the trouble that he had in with such fury as to nearly carry the diver off his feet. their speech. The result was a most ugly, misshapen exploring a wreck, said that he was constantly annoyed But with the strength of desperation he managed to mouth in almost every woman who was grown up. by several heavy chests which kept moving about with cling to the shark's fins, and deal him blow after blow The gentleman attributed this ugly feature to the ugly every swell of the sea. One came near to his head- with his dagger. tempers which were allowed such unlimited expression dress, and it would have quickly broken had it struck The shark's jaws opened and shut like a large pair of in words. it. But by dodging in time, the chest passed harm- factory shears, and, had the diver been free from the Come to think about it, have we not observed some- lessly over him, and the next moment it collided with monster's fins, they would have snapped him in two in an thing corresponding to this in our own favored land ? another similar chest. The force of the collision broke instant. The strong tail beat the water with indescrib- JULY, 1888. BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF' TIE 108

able fury, and greatly agitated even the surface of the edge of physiology and even a very superficial acquaint- THE DEACON'S WAY. waters. It was the monster's death struggles. Struck ance with chemistry would have done for this wealthy to the heart, and weakened by the loss of blood, it soon woman. She might not have known Tennyson from How would I go to work to keep my children front rolled over dead. Tupper, or a syllogism from the rule of three, but she reading sensational books ? The best way- to answer The diver, saved almost by a miracle, quickly rose could then have poisoned her family and friends only that question is by telling you what I have done. to the surface of the water, where his companions were from deliberate choice. The other evening, coming into the sitting-room, anxiously waiting for him. His copper head-dress " It took me two or three days to recover from the saw James reading a dime novel, at least I thought was slightly damaged, and his strength nearly gone; effects of this indigestible conglomeration, and I shall it looked. like a dime novel. Mother had her sew- but beyond that he had suffered nothing from the never think of that tea-table without disgust and im- ing ; Jennie was working on an afghan ; Tommy fearful encounter. A few minutes later a number of patience. was making a set of jackstraws out of a piece of red sharks were upon. the scene, attracted by the blood of " And now let me tell you about visit number two. cedar. " Let's have some reading aloud," said. I. their dead companion, and without ceremony they fell Rockers under some beautiful Balm of Gilead trees, " James, you seem to have got hold of an interesting upon the inert mass, and began fighting for the pieces. a large vase of wild flowers at one end of the wooden book there, suppose you read it aloud to us." James r these The scene then became a sickening one; fo door-steps, a mass of old-fashioned cinnamon roses on looked up with a flush on his face. voracious creatures are more bloodthirsty in their the other. Two or three magazines and some news- habits than even the wolves of the American prairies. " I don't believe you would care for this," said he ; papers on a bench contiguous to the rockers, a flower "it isn't much of a book." If one becomes injured in the struggle for the pieces, garden at our right, a sloping meadow in front, and " You're mightily interested in it," said Tommy, he is often set upon by the rest, and literally torn to the blue sky seen in fascinating patches through the "for a bo )k that isn't much of a book." pieces before life has left him. He may fight for a brilliant green of the ancient trees. Then a few mo- time; but superior numbers soon overcome him.—Geo. ments to myself, just long enough for a delicious reverie, " Yes, come," said Jennie, " let's have some reading E. Walsh. and next a chirping call to tea. Bread not too fresh aloud. Why not, James ? " nor yet too stale, fragrant, pure butter as yellow as " Mother wouldn't like this book," said he. " Why not ?" said mother. SLOW POISONING. gold, a heaping dish of black raspberries, another of late strawberries; some cold chicken poetically served, " Oh ! you wouldn't, that's all," said James. " It's a pitcher of cream that it makes my mouth water to just stuff." " ISN'T it strange," said Araminta, musingly, " that think of, and last, but not least, a cream cake which " If it isn't worth reading aloud, it isn't worth read- wealthy people are not always educated people, espe- was certainly the most satisfying to soul and sense of ing at all," said Jennie. cially when money has been handed down from genera- any cake I ever had the good Joanne to be treated to. " That d )es not follow, by any means," said I. tion to generation ?" As you are all cooks, I will give you an inkling of how " There are a great many books worth reading that " It is simply a question of heredity, I suppose," it was made. Just a very plain cake,' my friend told are not worth reading aloud. But it James is too said one of Araminta's companions. " If the desire to me, baked. in layers. Of these there were three, per- much interested in his story to put it aside, the rest of accumulate wealth for the _purpose of making a show haps each an inch in thickness ; the cream—the genu- us will form a reading circle and. get something that is in life is the ruling passion of one's progenitors, that ine article—properly sweetened, and delicately flavored worth reading aloud." settles it generally, at least as far as I have had oppor- with vanilla, was whipped to a stiff froth, and at the " Oh ! I don't care anything about it," said James. tunity to observe." last moment poured over them. A pint of cream would "I was just reading to get through the evening. If " Well, I should think that even such people would be none too much for a cake of this size. You see the you have anything better on hand, let's, by all means, want to know something about their stomachs," Ara- cream does not have time to soak in before cake time have it." With that he laid the hook by with a shove minta responded, as if suffering from a personal injury, arrives, and to admit of this dressing the cake itself that sent it half way across the table., " especially as from their limitations in other respects must not be very sweet or very short. • Just plain and " What shall it be ?" said I. they are obliged to give so much attention to these or- light,' my friend said. Being in a great measure an " How would. it do to begin a course of history ?" gans. Now, by way of a little amplification of this inspirational cook, I doubt if she could have given the said Jennie. " There's our Hume ' in the bookcase. subject, I want to tell you of two visits I have made exact rule. This was a feast for the gods and god- I don't believe that any of us ever read it through. during the last fortnight. I was invited to tea by the desses, made possible, not by wealth, but by that true How would that do ? " wealthiest woman in a certain country village, and if culture and refinement which comes from well-organized I. thought to myself that probably none of us ever not by the poorest in respect to worldly goods, at least brains properly developed. By and by legislation will would read it through, but I did not say anything. I with one who is compelled to practice all sorts of small take up this matter of slow poisoning, you see if it waited for some one else to respond. economies and do her housework with her own fair don't," Araminta concluded, a little snappishly ; " that " I've got a bully book up stairs," said Tommy. hands. is, if education don't come to the rescue, and I don't " What is it ?" I asked. " In the first instance I was received with the great- suppose it will. I guess an elephant could go through " David Crockett," said Tommy. " I will go and get est effusiveness, and installed in the most luxuriously the eye of a needle about as easy as one could beat it." With that, and before any of us could decide upholstered chair in the dark, spacious parlors, when I necessary culinary and physiological information into whether we wanted it or not, Tommy was off lip stairs would a thousand times rather have been out on the such heads as the rich woman's I have been telling you after his " bully book." He is as quick as a flash in piazza with the flies which my hostess made such deadly about. But if such people can't be enlightened, they everything. It proved to be one of Mr. John S. C. war against ; and the top step for a seat would have ought to be suppressed."—Eleanor Kirk, in Good Abbott's Pioneers and Patriots series. Housekeeping. been infinitely preferable to the warm depths of this " What is there bully about it ?" said Ito Tommy, cushioned easy chair. The piazza was nothing to my when he had produced it. hostess but an added shade to her house. There was EXTENSIVE LIBRARIES. " Well, father, I didn't mean to say bully ; only you the inevitable photograph album, and plenty of pretty know that word comes awfully convenient, and I ring tables and what-nots ' covered with fancy articles, but it in without thinking. But it's full of adventure, not a book to be seen ; if there had been, owing to the THE largest library in the world is that of the French, at Paris, which contains to-day upwards of about a fellow that lived in the wilderness when the scarcity of light, I could hardly have made out the title. country was new, and even Ohio was as wild as an In- About half an hour before tea, my enterta'ner left me 2,000,000 printed books and 160,000 manuscripts. Between the Imperial library at St. Petersburg and dian—what-do-you-call-it ?" in the deepening gloom, to oversee the rolls,' she " Reservation," said Jennie. told me in a sepulchral whisper. have a fair cook,' the British Museum, it is difficult to say which is the larger. Neither will vary much from 1,100,000 " Yes, reservation," said Tommy. she added. Indeed, she ought to be good, for I pay " What do you say, James," said I ; " will you read her enough. But there are some things I never allow volumes. The Royal library of Munich has now something over 900,000, but this includes 500,000 aloud for us while I go to work on the shoe-box I am her to do alone ; one of these is light rolls.' Now making for mother ?" I was certainly led to expect something unusual ; but pamphlets ; the Royal library at Berlin contains James said he would ; and we then and there in- these much-boasted articles were underdone and conse- 700,000 ; the library at Copenhagen, 510,000 ; the augurated a reading circle. We have kept it up, so quently heavy, besides being so thickly tattooed with library at Dresden, 500,000 ; the library at Vienna, yellow spots as to be hideous to the sight. "The cook 400,000 ; the University library at Gottingen, Ger- far, all winter, James and I taking turns in reading aloud and the rest going on with their work. Tommy didn't work the soda in as much as I would have liked,' many, 400,000. The Vatican library at Rome has begged off my hostess explained, but I never allow sour bread to about 120,000 printed books, and was commenced in is quite expert with his knife ; and he has come onto my table.' It is my firm belief, that raw 1378. from the reading to go on with his carpentry. We dough with the alkali left out, would have been more There are about sixty other libraries in Europe followed " David Crockett" with " Daniel Boone," and digestible than these speckled cannon balls. But com- larger than the Vatican library. The National library then took up Lady Brassy's "'Voyage Round the mon politeness decreed that I should at least appear to of Paris is one of the, very oldest in Europe, having World in the Yatch Sunbeam." We are reading that partake of what was placed before me, so 1 nibbled been founded in 1350, although the University library with an Atlas, and look up the places in the Atlas, and deftly at the crust and seemed pleasantly occupied. of Prague is reported founded the same year. The Jennie sometimes looks them up further in the Cyclo- Dear me, what hypocrites we are. The cake was as British Museum dates its commencement about four pedia, and tells us more about them at the next read- ing. And I haven't seen anything more of James's execrable as the rolls, possessing the same element of hundred years later-1763. Of the large libraries in clamminess and the same alkaline sting. The preserves the United States, the Boston public library comes dime novel. My way to keep our boys from the bad were so sickeningly sweet that half a teaspoonful was next to the Congressional, with about 350,000 (in- literature is to overcome evil with good. as much as a well-ordered stomach could possibly man- cluding the duplicates in its seven branches); the How can I find the time ? Well, I believe that he age, and so with everything else upon this groaning Harvard University collection comes next, with about that does not provide for his own family is worse than board. I knew I should groan later, and I did. 210,000. an infidel. And I think that it is a part of my duty There was not a flower to be seen, though the meadows The Astor and Mercantile, of New York, have each to provide my children with good books, and good. were white with daisies, and wild roses were blooming about 150,000 ; Yale College has about 115,000. company in reading them. And I won't take so much everywhere. Then, too, my hostess had an acre or Dartmouth, about 54,000 ; Cornell University has work on hand that I cannot do something For my own two of flower-garden, and a gardener, who, whatever 42,000; the University of Virginia, 42,000; Bowdoin children. I have no Lodge to go to ; and, in fact, I his othegrecommendations might be, came from the has 38,000; the University of South Carolina has generally spend my evenings at home. I do not know employ of one of the first families in New York.' The 30,000 ; Michigan State, 40,000 ; Amherst, 44,500 ; any way in which a father and mother can spend all photographs in the album, which fortunately I could Princeton, 45,000; Pennsylvania ercantile, 126,000; their evenings out, and make their children contented not examine with a critic's eye, and the terrible suffer- and. Columbia University, South Carolina, 32,000. to spend them at home. My neighbors grumble a ings from dyspepsia common to every Member of this The national library, as it should be called, exceeds little, but my children do not ; and, on the whole, I benighted housenold, furnished the entertainment of all but eight, or possibly nine, of the ancient libraries would rather bear the grumbling of my neighbors than the afternoon. Now just think what a little knowl- of Europe, and all in America.—Sel. of my children.—Christian Union. 10 BIBLE ECHO AN1D SIGNS OP THE TIMES. 'Vol.. 3, No. 7.

and on the Pacific slope another publishing association believe that the generation of men now living will not (tcho Rua fipko a Ow %ham was organized with a capital of £6,000. From that titne pass away until the work has been accomplished, and the cause on the Pacific eoast has gathered strength, and Christ has come to take his people to himself. 8. N. H. "What is truth ?" continual additions have been made to the publishing in- S. N. HASKELL, stitution, in order to keep up with the demands for litera- ANTICHRIST.--No. 5. GEO. 1. BuTLEit, Wiwi SMITH, ture presenting the principles of the truth. Four period- J. H. WAGGONER, icals are published at the Pacific Press, with an aggregate IN our previous articles we have noticed : 1. The harmony in the testimonies of the apostles Paul and John Melbourne, Australia, July, 1888. monthly circulation of 100,000 copies. and that of the prophet Daniel as to the rise of a In 1883 another smaller publishing office was estab- persecuting power ; 2. That that power would be a lished in connection with the educational interests at RISE AND PROGRESS OF PRESENT religious power, an apostate church ; 3. That it would Souttl Lancaster, Massachusetts. Already its dimensions TRUTH.—No. 6. arise out of the Roman empire, being already at work in have grown to treble its original capacity. The question the days of the apostles ; 4. That it would oppose God may arise, Why do you not build larger when you first THE PUBLISHING WORK. and Christ, and thus be an antichrist ; 5. That it arose commence? The answer can be given in a few words. about the year A.D. 538. At this time, by decree of the WHEN we trace the outline of Sabbath reform in The growth of the cause has been gradual. It com- Emperor Justinian and the subjugation of the kingdoms America, we do not include the Seventh-day Baptist de- menced as it began in Australia. Our means were lim- nomination, numbering about fifteen thousand, who are ited, and we have done what we could for the time being, of the Heruli, the Ostrogoths, and the Lombards (Faber descendants of the old Sevenths-day Baptists of England. and then as the cause grew our capacity for work has in "Comprehensive Commentary," "Milman's Gibbon's They first gained a foothold in America in 1664, at which been increased in proportion. The total sales from the Rome," etc.; Dan. 7 :8), the bishop of Rome was date five came over the sea and organized a church in the two offices in Battle. Creek and on the Pacific coast dur- established as head over all the Western churches and the eastern part of the United States of America. The ing the year 1887 were £26,500; the number of period- corrector of heretics. Thus we find him placed in the Seventh day Adventists are the people to whom we will icals issued 2,890,421 ; the number of hands regularly temple of God, exalting himself above all that is called refer, a denomination which, since they began to observe employed is about 275 ; the amount of capital invested in God or that is worshiped. We have also seen that the papacy was to continue in the exercise of its power twelve the seventh day, have far outstripped the older denomina- these publishing houses is £80,000._ The number of tion, their numbers being more than double those of their presses employed is 25. hundred and sixty days, or years. The following are the predecessors, and their work much more extensive. expressions used by the sacred writers to indicate the In the establishing of each of these publishing interests, We have mentioned the first paper published in behalf length of the period allotted to him : "Time and times excepting the one at South Lancaster, which was begun of the Sabbath reform, but it was not until 1850 that this and the dividing of time ;" " Time, times, and a half ;" after his decease, Mr. White and those who felt the im- periodical became firmly established. Although the pub- "Forty and two months ;" "A thousand two hundred and portance and burden of the work, were the leading spirits. lishing work commenced two years before, there was no threescore days." See Dan. 7 :25 ; 12 : 7 ; Rev. 13 : 5 ; Their farseeing judgment provided for the extensive fixed place as a publishing- house, and the paper was issued 12 : 14, 6. We have before shown that the expression growth of these institutions by the organization which, irregularly from various places. The publishers owned time, according to the usage of the word, indicates one under God, he was instrumental in introducing. This nothing, but simply prepared the matter and hired the year of three hundred and sixty days, noting which the plan of organization was such as to exclude personal in- printing done at any convenient office. harmony of the writers as to the continuation of this terest, or, rather, perhaps we Might say, created a personal It was not until 1851 that the friends of Sabbath reform power is readily seen to be complete. interest among all of our friends to be share-holders, among the Adventists became sufficiently numerous to be Twelve hundred and sixty days, according to the although such shares were of no financial benefit to the able to raise the funds necessary to enable them to do prophetic use of the day in the Bible, the rule being "a holders, the proceeds being devoted to the further exten- their own work on the paper. Then they located in the day for a year," would indicate twelve hundred and sixty sion of the work. Thus each of these institutions is city of Rochester, New York. Four years later, the pub- years literal time, which period, reckoning from the date lishing interest was moved to Battle Creek, Michigan, owned by friends whom God's providence has raised up 538, when the three opposing powers were placed in sub- in various parts of the country, who have taken stock in where at the present time is the central office. In that jection to the pope of Rome, as we have seen, would bring amounts from one to a hundred shares. Representatives year a small two-story wooden building was erected, size us to the year 1798. In this year history records the fact meet yearly, electing a boar 1 of trustees who have charge 22x30 feet, and two years later a machine was purchased that Rerthier, the French General, entered Rome, and took of the business during the year. upon which to print the paper, with the engine to run it. the pope prisoner, carrying him into exile, where he died The entire cost of this outfit was £500 ; but as there was The question might occur to some, If these institutions the next year; and that the Papal States were afterwards no company formed, the property really belonged to Mr. have so large a capital invested, are they not laying up annexed to the French empire. One other point should White, although the friends had donated of their means, money ? To this we would reply that the work is con- be mentioned, namely. the plucking up of the three kings In 1861 the first association was organized and legally tinually extending, and new fields are entered by the to make way for himself. Dan. 7 : 8, 20, 24. The triple incorporated, and the same year a two-story brick building friends who have already taken their stand much faster crown worn by the popes of Rome is a testimony on their was erected in the form of a Greek cross. The main por- than the money comes into the treasury. These institu- part that they claim to have subjugated three kings, ac- tion was 26x66, and the transverse section 26x44 feet. tions are to a great extent banking houses among those cording to prophecy. This for hundreds of years has been This building cost £2,000. The eighth annual report of who believe these truths. Here they deposit means at a a continual testimony that we are correct in the applica- the Association, May 14, 1868, only twenty years since, low rate of interest, or without interest, which enables tion of the prophecy. showed the entire amount of property invested, free from these Associations to enlarge their buildings and extend We now inquire, Does the Roman Catholic Church all incumbrances, to be £5,000. To trace the growth of their work. Were it not for the liberality of friends who answer in character to the power described by the the publishing interest as it advanced step by step, would place their means in these institutions, the work would be prophets, fulfilling these specifications as well as those require too much space for this article, but we will simply greatly crippled, as the expense of carrying the work into relating to the manner and the time of its rise and con- say that this department has been the right arm of this new fields is far beyond our financial ability. tinuation ? On this point we have only to allow them to cause. Preaching would fail to accomplish all that is to Thus the Lord has gone before his people, and in differ- he convicted on their own testimony. . : . Daniel says be desired, and the lack would be unsupplied, were it not ent parts of the world has prepared hearts for the recep- that he shall " speak great words against the Most High," for publications. They go into thousands of places where tion of the truth. We verily believe that erelong the and John records that he spoke " great things and the living preacher never could go, and many places where Lord will come and take his people to himself ; but be- blasphemies," and that he "opened his mouth against he does get access would have bean closed to his labors, fore that time arrives, there is a great work to be accom- God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, and them had the printed sheet not prepared the way for him. plished. There is a world to be warned. The message that dwell in heaven." Look at a few of his self-assumed Those. who read the publications, and accept the truths is to go to every nation, an 1 kindred, and tongue, and titles : "His Holiness," "Vicegerent of the Son of God," pointed out in the word of God, taking their stand with an people. As stewards of. God, we would encourage all "Lord God the Pope," " God upon the earth," " King of the enlightened conscience, were men who usually were an whose faith and devotion would lead them to do so to de- world," "King of kings, and Lord of lords." Said Pope honor to the cause. Mr. White and his co-laborers saw vote time, strength, and means to the advancement of this Nicholas to the Emperor Michael : "The pope, who was the importance of the publishing work, and while on the glorious work. We do not expect that all men will be called God by Constantine, can never be bound or re- one hand they encouraged young men to enter the min- converted, but out of every nation God will take a people leased by man ; for God cannot be judged by man." istry, they urged forward the work of distributing read- for himself. We would therefore urge that our people What further evidence than this do we need that this is ing matter. cultivate in their hearts an interest in divine things, and the blasphemous power in question ? Does the Father or We have already stated that in 1861 the first brick realize that to each one of us is entrusted talents. Put- the Son ever claim any higher title than is assumed by building was erected ; ten years later the growth of the ting these talents out to usury is placing them in the these mortal men ? publishing work demanded the erection of another equal cause of God. Those who do this, whether it is money Listen to the adulation a pope received without rebuke in size. Three years later, still another of the same di- that they can give, or their lives, are laying up treasures from one of his admirers. A Venetian prelate, at the fourth mensions was built, and again in five years the prosperity where moth and rust do not corrupt, or theives break session of the Lateran Council, addressed him : " Thou art of the work warranted the erection of a large, four-story through and steal. It is the same work that was inau- our shepherd, our physician, in short, a second God upon building, joining two of the previous buildings. In 1881, gurated by our Saviour when he was upon the earth. It is earth." Another bishop called him "'the Lion of three years later, another large addition was made, and the humble, self-denying path, strewed with sorrow and the tribe of Judah, the promised Saviour." Lord since that time the increase in business has rendered it affliction, that we are called upon to tread. The path may Anthony Pucci, in the fifth Lateran Council, necessary to make two other large additions to the facili- be moistened with tears, as was the ground upon which said to the pope : "The sight of thy divine majesty ties at the central publishing house. At this office there the Saviour knelt in the garden of Gethsemane ; but he does not a little terrify me; for I am not ignorant that all are now issued nine periodicals in four different lan- set the example, and we are to follow in his footsteps. power, both in heaven and in earth, is given untoyou ; guages, with a monthly circulation of over 150,000. In There is a happiness and peace in tile Master's service that the prophetic saying is fulfilled in you saying, " All 1887 the sales of books at wholesale prices, exclusive of which more than atones for the trials here below, and the kings of the earth shall worship him, and nations shall periodicals, was £18,311. This represents the growing there is a glorious reward beyond. NO greater joy comes serve him." See Oswald's " Kingdom which Shall not be interest in every other department. to the pioneers in this work than that which arises from Destroyed," pp 97-99. In 1875 the influence of the Sabbath reform had crossed the advancement and prosperity of the cause, as it is the Speaking of the specifications laid down in the Bible of the American continent, a distance of four thousand miles evidence that we are so much nearer home ; and we verily the power which was to rise in opposition to God, JULY, 1888. -BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIME. 105

Jerome quotes from Syrachus : "To none can this apply remember that this observance of the Sabbath, im which, But as these laws failed to accomplish all that the so well and so fully as to the popes of Rome. They have after all, the only Protestant worship consists, not only Catholics desired, and Sunday was still but poorly kept, assumed infallibility, which belongs only to God. They has no foundation in the Bible, but it is in flagrant con- they had recourse to miracles, a very popular argument of profess to forgive sins, which belongs only to God, tradiction with its letter, which commands rest on the the Romish Church. Gregory of Tours, A. D. 570, fur- and they go beyond God in pretending to loose whole Sabbath, which is'Saturday. It was the Catholic Church, nishes several. A husbandman went out to plough on the nations from their oath of allegiance to their kings when which, by the authority of Jesus Christ, has transferred Lord's day, and, trying to clean his plough with an iron, such kings do not please them, and they go against God this rest to the Sunday, in the remembrance of our Lord. "the iron stuck fast to his hand for two years, . . . when they give indulgences for sin. This is the worst Thus the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an to his exceeding great pain and shame." Some were of all blasphemies." A volume of similar testimonies homage they pay in spite of themselves to the authority killed by lightning for working on that day. Others were might be quoted, showing that by their own arrogant of the Church." The italicised words are theirs. See seized with convulsions. Apparitions appeared to kings, assumptions, and by the homage they in consequence re- also Milner's " End of Controversy," pages 10, 71, 261. charging them to enforce Sunday sacredness. A miller ceive, they are opposed to God, and in their claims even They boast of this change which they have made. was at one time grinding corn on Sunday, and instead of above him. Does not this power, then, speak " great Protestants deny this, anti claim that the change was the usual production .of meal, a torrent of blood came things and blasphemies"? made in the early church. But when we appeal to the forth. At another time a woman was trying to bake her Another specification is, " He shall wear out the saints Scriptures, it is not there. It has been made by some bread upon this ven uable day, but upon putting it in the oven, it remained only dough. It was said that the souls of the Most High." Has he fulfilled this ? Chapter power since the days of the apostles. God said by the after chapter of history might be produced, chronicling prophet Daniel, twenty-five hundred hundred years ago, in purgatory on every "Lord's day were manumitted from their pains, and fluttered up and down the lake Avernus the devastating wars, massacres, crusades against peace- that this very power would do this. Now itself declares in tine shape of loving Christians, inquisitions, and persecutions of all that it has done it; shall we believe it ? Evidences might birds."—Heylynds History of the Sabbath, part 2, chap. 5, sec. 2. kinds,—the mighty weapons which Rome wielded for be multiplied on these points. The question is, Are these It seems a little strange to us to read of such things ; centuries in her merciless struggle for the mastery. things so? Facts say they are. History testifies, and but these were regarded as sober facts by the historians Scott's " Church History" says that no computation can none can truthfully deny it. We may close our eyes, and of those times, and as strong arguments for Sunday reach the numbers who have been put to death in different say the sun does not shine, and deceive ourselves; but it sacredness. We must not fail to mention the roll "which ways on account of their maintaining the profession of shines nevertheless. So with the prophetic word of God; came down from heaven," in which tine the gospel, and opposing the corruption of the Church of the inspired penman has borne the testimony, history has first authority from Christ is found in behalf of Sunday. The one great lack Rome. A million of humble Waldenses perished in France placed upon it the seal of veracity, and happy is the man hitherto had been divine authority for, it. Node was and Italy. Nine hundred thousand Protestants were slain who believes it and acts accordingly. s. N. H. claimed by the early Fathers. "Tradition" and "custom," in less than thirty years after the institution of the order as we have seen, were all the authority for it which could .of Jesuits. See Bucks Theological Dictionary; Oswal l's SUNDAY DOWN TO THE REFORMATION. be found until emperors and popes added theirs. But Kin9,siotn; Dowling's History of Romanism; Fox's Cook Thus far we have briefly considered the progress of the even in those dark ages the want of something more was of Martyrs; Charlotte Elizabeth's Martyrology; The Great Sunday festival to the beginning of the sixth century. felt. Council after council was held to enforce it; yet Red Dragon, by Anthony Gavin, formerly a Roman We have found it still advancing in popular favor, be- tine people were not so impressed by them that they would Catholic priest iu Saragossa, Spain; Histories of the coming the usual day on which public meetings were held, wholly refrain from labor on the venerable Sunday. Reformation, etc. That Rome has punished in this way and at least a partial rest day, but never yet called the Something more must be obtained. those whom she calls heretics is adtnitte I, and boasted of, Sabbath. From this time forward, during six or seven In the year 1200, Eustace, the abbot of Flaye, in Nor- Belarmine, as he wrote even by their own writers. centories, was an age of great barbarism and spiritual mandy, came to England and labored very ardently in against Luther, admitted it, and produced cases in proof darkness. Men's minds were controlled by the grossest behalf of Sunday. But meeting with opposition in his Fifty million is the lowest estimate placed upon of it. superstitions. The papal power was almost supreme. efforts, Inc returned to Normandy. Although repulsed, he the number who will rise up in the day of Judgment to Not one person in a hundred could read or write, and did not abandon the contest. After remaining there testify that the Church of Rome has worn out the saints books were very few and expensive. The Bible was ban- about a year, he returned with this remarkable roll: It of the Most High. ished from the hands of tine common people. and nearly was entitled— But there is one other claim which we wish to present, every copy was in the Greek and Latin languages, which "THE Hem' COMMANDMENT AS TO THE LORD'S DAY, namely, his attempt to change the law of God. The prophet at this time were not spoken by the masses. Very few "Which came from heaven to Jerusalem, and was found said, "He shall think to change times and laws." What persons, comparatively, ever saw a Bible. During a part upon the altar of Saint Simeon, in Golgotha, where Christ portion of God's law has time in it ? and has the Roman of this time, it was considered a great crime for a common was crucified for the sins of the world. The Lord sent Catholic Church thought to change it ? We have not person to be found reading the Bible,—an offense which down this epistle, which was found upon the al-tar of space to present one, tithe of their own testimonies on was punishable only by the Inquisition. Saint Simeon, and after looking upon which three days this point. It i's to them the badge of their authority, and It is not necessary that we should carefully note the and three nights, some limn fell upon the earth, imploring the one link which binds the Protestant churches to then, steps by which Sunday attained to a higher power in such mercy of God. And after the third hour, tine patriarch and on this account they still have hope that the an age. We have already seen how, step by step, 't arose, and Acharias, the archbishop, and they opened the Protestants will return to the mother church. stealthily advanced until that time, first asking only tol- scroll, and received the holy epistle from God. And when They claim that they have power to change the law of eration, next claiming equality with the ancient Sabbath, they had taken the same, they found this writing therein God, and various changes have they made. First, they and then taking a position above it as a joyous day, while "' I am the Lord that commanded you to observe tine have expunged, the second commandment from the the latter was made a fast day. Afterward it was called holy day of the Lord, and ye have not kept it, and have deealogue ent rely. This has disarranged the remaining the Lord's day of apostolical times. Finally it was ad- not repen:ed of your sins, as I have said in my gospel, nine. To make up the number ten, they have divided vane A by heathen emperor and Romish pope to the dig- "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall the tenth, making two. But in these changes they claim nity of a day of partial rest. It cast the creative Sabbath not pass away." Whereas I caused to be preached unto you that they have not changed the law of God. But the aside by Catholic councils, declaring all who observed it repentance and amendment of life, and you did not believe prophet says, " He shall think to change times and laws.' heretics placed un ler a curse ; and lastly it was sustained me, I have sent against you the pagans, who have shed We look, therefore, still further, and we find that he has' by popes, emperors, and councils, clahning the whole field your blood upon the earth ; and yet you have not be- changed the fourth commandment from the seventh day as its own. lieved ; and because you did not keep the Lord's day holy, to the first day of the week. In the Doctrinal Catechism, From this time forward, at every convenient occasion, for a few days you suffered hunger, but soon I gave you page 174, the following question is asked : " Have you a Catholic council would put forth a canon in behalf of fullness, and after that you did still worse again. Once any other way of proving that the church has power to the "venerable day of the sun," striving to make the more, it is nny will that no one, from the niAth hour on institute festivals of precept? Ans. Had she not such people observe it more sacredly. It would weary the Saturday uut 1 sunrise on Monday, shall do any work ex- power, sire could not have done that in which all modern mind of the reader were we to give a list of all these, and cept that which is good. religionists agree with her : She could not have substituted what they said concerning this pet institution of the "'And if any person shall do so, he shall with penance the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for Church of Rome. We will, however, mention a few of make amends for the same. And if you do not pay the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for the Roman Catholic councils. Tine first council of Orleans, obedience to tlnis command, verily I say unto you, and which there is no Scriptural authority." A. D. 507, "obliged themselves and successors to be always swear unto you, by my seat, and by my throne, and by the Again, in the "Catholic Christian Instructed" is the at the church on the Lord's day." The third council of cherubim who watch my holy seat, that I will give you following: " What warrant have you for keeping the Orleans, a. D. 538, required agricultural labor to be laid my commands by no other epistle ; but I will open the Sunday preferable to the ancient Sabbath, which was aside on the Lord's day, "in order that the people may not heavens, and for rain I will rain upon you stones, and Saturday? Ans. We have for it the authority of the be prevented from atten ling church." In 538 another wood, and hot water in the night, that no one may take Catholic Church and apostolic tradition." council was held in Mascon, a town in Burgundy, because precautions against the same, and so that I may destroy Again, in presenting arguments to show that the Bible "Christian people very much neglect and slight the Lord's all wicked men. is not of itself a sufficient rule of faith, but it is necessary day," giving themselves to common work, etc. The "'This do I say unto you ; for the Lord's holy day, you to have the traditions of the Catholic Church, we have bishops warn them against such practices, and command shall die the death ; and for the other festivals of my the following : "Lastly the keeping holy of the Sunday them to keep tine Lord's day. About a year later, another saints which you have not kept, I will send unto you is a. thing absolutely necessary to salvation; and yet this is council was held in Narbon, which forbade all persons beasts that have the heads of lions, the hair of women, nowhere put down in the Bible; on the contrary, the Bible from doing any work on the Lord's day, on penalty of a the tails of camels, and they shall be so ravenous that they says, 'Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy' (Ex.20 : "fine if a freeman," or of "being lashed if a servant." In shall devour your flesh, and you shall long to flee away to 8), which is Saturday and not Sunday ; therefore the 654 one was held at Charlons, another in England in 692, the tombs of the dead, and to hide yourselves for fear of Bible does not contain all things, necessary to salvation, also one in 747, one in Bavaria in 772, again one in Eng- the beasts ; and I will take away the light of the sun and consequently cannot be a sufficient rule of faith." land in 784, and five councils were called by Charlemagne from before your eyes, and will send darkness upon you, —Sure Way to Find out the True Religion, p. 95. in the year 813, and one was held-in Rome in 826. In all that not seeing, you may slay one another, and that I may We present the reader with only one more testimony of these, strong efforts were made to build up the Sunday remove from you Loy face, and may net show mercy upon from another work entitled, "Plain Talk about the sacredness. Many others were also held for the same you. For I will burn the bodies and the hearts of you,. Protestants of To-day," page 213 : "It is worthwhile to purpose. and of all those who do not keep as holy the day of the: 106 BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OE THE TIMES. Vol,. 3, No. 7. Lord.'" See Andrews's History of the Sabbath, second government. God does or says nothing except what is in * ffituient. edition, pp. 386-389 ; Matthew Paris's Historia Major, harmony with them. This being the case, the most holy pp. 200, 201, ed. 1640 ; Heylyn's History of the Sabbath, place of the tabernacle is called "the oracle," as being part 2, chap. 7, sec. 5 ; Mover's Lord's Day, pp. 288-290 ; the place that contained the oracles of God. See 1 Kings THE BOOKS OF MOSES. Gilfillan's Sabbath, p. 399, and many others. 6 : 5,19, 20, 21, 22, 23 ; 8 : 8. And so, when David prayed personal experience of those who are veterans to God upon his throne, he said : "Hear the voice of my THE We have given over one half of this famous document, in the study of the Bible demonstrates the necessity of supplications when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my which, in view of our brief space, will perhaps suffice. prefacing that study by an investigation of tine history That such a document was actually brought to England at hands toward thy holy oracle." Ps. 28 : 2. of the books constituting the Canonical Scriptures. the time mentioned, and used with strong effect to enforce Remembering that the ten commandments are "the A knowledge of the circumstances connected with the the observance of Sunday, does not admit of any doubt. oracles of God," we can understand what a powerful ex- origin of the various books, not only aids the student It is substantiated by all the reliable historians of that age, hortation the apostle makes when he says, "If any man in understanding the facts introduced, but adds much To read such a document as this in this skeptical age, may speak, let him speak as the oracles of God." 1 Peter 4 :11. to the interest of the, study. I am aware that the appear to us a little ludicrous. But at the time it was That is, whatever a man says, and especially if he speaks treatises on this subject are ''legion;" and it is not with the expectation of presenting any new and hith- written, at the height of the Dark Ages, it was far as a teacher, should be in harmony with the law of God. In other words, it should he as true as if God himself had erto undiscovered facts concerning their history that I different. That was the age of relics,—an age when a enter upon the task before me, but with the convic- nail or a piece of wood of the true cross was of inestimable spoken it. So when God speaks of the model for his ministers, he says "The law of truth was in his mouth, tion that a few points which are generally admitted by value, when the hones, toe nails, and other mementoes of the best authorities will be of interest to the Bible and iniquity was not found in his lips ; he walked with the saints were considered of the highest worth, The students who read the Ecimo. credulity of the people knew no bounds, and the Romish me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from Upon entering this division of the historic field, we priests took every advantage of it. It was by such means iniquity. For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and are immediately confronted by what is known as as this that support was supplied and holiness ascribed to they should seek the law at his mouth ; for he is the THE PENTATEUCH, messenger of the Lord of hosts." Malachi 2 : 6, 7. the "venerable day of the sun." There is no question but Consisting of the first five books of the Bible, and If all who profess to acknowledge God would remem- that this remarkable document came from the pope him- known in Scripture as " The Law," " The Law of self. This is stated on the authority of Matthew Paris, ber to speak on every occasion as the oracles of God, Moses," " Moses," '' The Book of the Law," " The whom Dr. Murdock says "is accounted the best historian there' would be a revival such as has never been known. Book of the Covenant," etc. Its division into five of the Middle Ages,—learned, independent, honest, and But while the ten commandments are primarily ,the books is probably due to the LXX., for the names judicious." Mosheim also says that " the first place was oracles of God, it is also true that the term may properly are of Greek and not Hebrew origin. The Jews name due to him as a writer of the highest merit." be applied to the entire Old Testament ; for the Old the books from the initial or chief word in the first Testament is but a commentary on the ten command- verse of each. The MSS. of the Pentateuch form one This writer says : "But when the patriarch and clergy ments ; in which, both by precept and example, we are roll, divided, not into books, but into larger and of all the holy land had diligently examined the contents shown how the la v should be kept, and by .example and smaller sections, parshiyoth and sedarim. Its existence of this epistle, it was decreed, in a general deliberation, judgment are shown the consequences of disobe3ing the is traceable to the time of its compilation, as I shall that the epistle should be sent to the judgment of the law ; and it also shows how to escape the consequences of prove further on. Roman pontiff, seeing that whatever he decreed to be done ITs AUTHORSHIP.—In establishing this point, we sin, The same thing may also be said of the New Testa- would please all. And when at length the epistle had also fix, to a great extent, the time and. place of its ment, which is an expansion of the Old. So while the ten come to the knowledge of the lord pope, immediately he origin. After the battle of Amalek, the Lord said to commandments were issued directly from the lips of God, ordained heralds, who, being sent through different parts Moses, ." 4.4 rite this for a memorial" (Ex. 17 : 14) ; the entire Bible is properly called the word of Gcd. of the world, preached everywhere th ; doctrine of this implying that there was a record kept in a well-known And this suggests another thought. Christ is the Word. epistle, . . . among whom the abbot of Flaye, Eu- book. This position is further established by turning John 1 :1 ; Rev. 19 : 11-13. He is so called because it is stachius by name, a devout and learned man, having en- to Num. 33 :2, where we are plainly told that " Moses through him that all of God's will is revealed to man. wrote their goings out according to their journeyings, tered the kingdom of England, did there shine with many He it was that spoke the law from Mount Sinai. It was . . . and these are their journeys according to their miracles."—Matthew Paris's Historia Major, p. 201. the Spirit of Christ that was in the holy prophets, speak- goings out." Then follows a detailed account of the Innocent III, was pope at that time, and no pontiff ing through them. As h n declared the law of God, so he wanderings of Israel in the wilderness. Moses's MS. that ever sat in the papal chair exceeded him in efforts to makes known to us the love of God, and will finally exe- contained 'also a record of " all the words of the Lord." elevate and strengthen the popish power. It was by such cute the divine judgment. Moreover, he is the Word of Ex. 24 : 4. When Moses had finished writing the book of the law, the Pantateuch, he gave it in charge steps as these that the Flemish Church advanced the in- God, in that in him we have the law,—the oracles of God, to the priests, to be laid up before the Lord, and to be terests of Sunday. Custom, tradition, the edicts of em- --personified. And so all stand together,—the law, the read in the hearing of Israel on certain occasions. perors, popes, and councils, bogus miracles, and rolls Old Testament, and Christ, Whoever or whatever casts manufactured by priestly craft, and palmed off as of Dent. 31 :9-I1, 26. The book of the law, thus discredit upon one, dishonors the other to exactly the same written by Moses and handed to the priests, ends at heavenly origin upon the ignorant, bigoted, and credulous extent. E. J. WAGGONER. Dealt. 31 : 23. The rest of the book of Deuteronomy, multitude by the sanction of the pope and higher prelates, 411. t with the exception of the song and blessing, which are —these are the foundations upon which the Sunday Sab- THE POWER OF CHRISTIANITY. evidently Moses's own composition, is an appendix bath rests. added after Moses's death by another person, perhaps It is stated by the historians that the Lord's day was HOWEVER the infidel and the agnostic may theorize to Joshua, or, possibly Ezra, who, after the captivity, ibetter observed because of this second roll, and the work the disparagement of the principles of tine Christian re- may have introduced the further explanations which of this zealous abbot in England. It had, doubtless, a ligion, their potency for the uplifting of the human race appear post-Mosaic. In either case the explanations :strong influence in many places in that superstitious age. is written upon the pages of history and in the present would be of divine authority, since both Joshua and Having thus traced the Sunday down to the middle of the relative status of the nations of the earth, in language Ezra were inspired writers. Dark Ages, we will next notice it in the time of the which none can misconstrue. It was these principles From Joshua downwards, the books of the Old Reformation. G. I. a. which prevented Rome, nearly 2,000 years ago, from be- Testament abound in references to tine laws. history, queathing to the world over which she ruled, her pagan and words of Moses as found in the Pentateuch, and THE ORACLES OF GOD. ideas of social and domestic life, and which, upon the dis- these sacred writers universally recognize its Mosaic ruption of that power, saved the world from utter lapse authorship. In Joshua 8 : 30, 31 reference, is into the yawning gulf of heathenism. It was these same made to Dent. 27 : 4-8, also to Ex. 20 : 25, THE word " oracle" is from a Latin wor i meaning to principles, surviving the long and terrible ordeal of papal and the words are. accepted as those of Moses. usurpation, which, lifted the world out of the dark pit of speak, to utter. Now the ten commandments are the one King David, who flourished about four hundred years portion of the Scriptures that God utter() 1 with his own Romish superstition. What principle was there known to the world, save that which men drew from the word of after Moses had written the Pentateuch, in his dying voice; and we think that there is sufficient evidence to show God, which could have nerved and inspired them to pass instruction to Solomon, said : " Keep the charge of the that the term "the oracles of God" refers p dticularly to with such fortitude through the deluge of blood in which Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, . . as it is the ten commandments. Rome sought to drown the Reformation ? Mere love of written in the law of Moses." 1 Kings 2 : 3. After In Acts 7 : 38 Stephen says of Moses that he " was in liberty, such as the infidel prcfesses, never would have the return of the Jews from Babylon, Ezra read the done the work. And to-day it is the principles of Chris- book of the law of Moses at the feast of tabernacles; the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake tianity that give to the leading nations of the earth their to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who re- greatness, and to civilization its elevating power. Bishop and the universal recognition of its authority is seen ceived the lively oracles to give unto us." Here' the R. S. Foster has strikingly presented this great truth in in their accepting it even at the cost of putting away reference to the ten commandments is unmistakable. the following language :— their wives. Ezra 10. The Samaritan Pentateuch, though known to It is well known that the ten commantments were kept " Christianity is confessedly the greatest power in the world. This is so politically, commercially, intellectually, ancient Jews, was first brought to light in modern in the ark in the most holy place of the tab6rnacle. This and morally. There are other faiths, as Buddhism, with times in the year 1616 A.D., by Pietro della Valle, who is all that was in that apartment. The presence of God a more numerous following, but none with comparable obtained a MS, of it from the Samaritans of Damascus. was manifested between the cherubim that were upon power. Tire powerful and ruling nations are Christian The fact that this agrees with our Jewish Pentateuch the mercy-seat above tine ark; "and there," said the Lord nations. The aggressive force, the elements of conquest is good evidence that we have the same that Israel and moulding influence--wealth, learning, to Moses, "I will meet with thee, and I will commune enterprise, prog- ress,—are all in Christian hands. It is a significant fact used. That was evidently a transcript of the original with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the that the political power of Christendom dominates almost taken from Jerusalem by Manasseh, brother of Juddua, two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of entire paganism, while one third of paganism is under the the high priest, who was expelled on account of having all things which I will give thee in commandment unto absolute sway of Christian rulers. All the forces of married Sanballat's daughter (Neh. 13 : 28), and who the children of Israel." Ex. 25 :22. modern thought are Christian. The eyes of heathenism became the first high priest on Mount Gerizim. See are turned to the centres of Christendom. The heathen The mercy-seat with the cherubim above, overshadow- Josephus's Antiquities, book 11, chap. 8, secs. 2, 4. world, dissatisfied with its religion and civilization not The Samaritans would never have accepted it if they had ing the glory of God, and the tables of the law under- less than with its poverty and misery, is looking toward not believed in its genuineness and divine authority. neath, represented the throne of God, which has justice Christendom for help. The heathen are waiting for All can see that it could not have been imposed upon and judgment for its foundation. The ten command- deliverance without knowing what it is they are waiting for. Heathenism cowers and shrinks away in conscious them at a later date than the time of Ezra. Hence ments are a transcript of God's character, they are his weakness before Christian thought and Christian institu- from that date it is an independent witness to the will, and consequently are the principles and rules of his tions."—Sel. authority of the five books to Moses.

JULY, 1888. BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF TI4E TIMES.

The Saviour and his apostles recognize the divine The text before us is one of this class. It is not the rate of thousands of miles an hour, that its authority and Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch. possible to refer the words " done away" to anything presence becomes sensible in resisting, somewhat, the When our Lord was being tempted in the wilderness, but the "glory." The passage reads : "dia ten doxan motion. he met every effort of Satan by referring him to what tort prosopou autou ten katargovmenen." Instead of " If we could visit mid-space, it would seem a perfect was " written" in the Pentateuch as authority. Com- the relative and verb, the Greek has the article and void, also dreadfully cold and dark and silent. The pare Matt. 4 : 4, 7, 10, with Dent. 8 : 3; 6 : 16, and participle. Literally it would be translated, " Ott ac- higher we go into our atmosphere, the colder it be- 6 : 13, respectively. He refers the Pharisees to Moses count of the glory of his face, the abolished." Now comes. All mountain summits, above a few thousand as authority concerning marriage. Mark 10 : 3, 5, 8. the participle katargonmenen (abolished) is in the feet, are covered with perpetual snow. Persons ascend- In refuting the arguments of the Saducees and same gender, number, and case as the word (Iowan ing in balloons at last reach a cold that is intolerable. establishing the fact of the resurrection, he appealed (glory), but it does not agree in all these respects with They evidently approach the confines of eternal to the Pentateuch as authority (Ex. 3 : 6), and recog- any other word in the whole sentence. Hence it is the winter, that, for silence and motionless fierceness, nized Moses as its author. See Mark 12 : 26. He glory, and nothing else, which the text asserts is done laughs to scorn all that we have of arctic and ant- refers the Jews to the Pentateuch to prove his Messiah- away. arctic. ship, in the following language : " For had ye be- It may be remarked that the article and the " According to the calculations of Sir John Her- lieved Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote participle have all the forca of a relative clause, as in schel, we have only to go fifty miles from the earth's of me." John 5 : 46, compare with Dent. 18 : 15, 18, the common version, the article agreeing with the noun surface to reach 132 deg. Fahrenheit. Could we 19. See also Luke 24: 27, 44, 45. understood. Thus : '' The [glory] abolished," or suddenly set down any moist thing at this point, it Peter,and Stephen appeal to the Pentateuch in sup- " that was to be abolished ;" or, as in the common would instantly explode like a pistol, though without port of the Messiahship of Christ, recognizing Moses as version, " which glory was to be done away." But sound (for mid-space is soundless as well as matter- its author. Compare Acts 3 : 22 ; 7: 37, with Deut. however we may word it, the decisive fact remains that less), and turn to stone as if touched by a magician's 18 : 15, 18, 19. Paul, in Bona. 10 : 5, quotes Lev. it is the glory only which is said to be done away. No wand. And if, at this short distance from the earth 18 : 5, and in verse 19 he quotes Deut. 32 : 21, and in one having any acquaintance with the Greek could and sun, space is so cold, what must it be in those both instances acknowledges its Mosaic origin. James, offer a different exposition. U. S. remote vacancies where the sun shows as a mere star? John. and Jude quote from the Pentateuch, and recog- • In thought, we sail away most comfortably among the nize it as authority. FORTY-FIVE MILES TO TARTARUS. constellations, without furs or overcoat; and perhaps our fancies make nothing of stopping whole hours in Our space will not admit of other and very im- mid-heaven, leaning against the chair of Cassiopeia, or portant arguments that could be presented in support Er may surprise some to learn that we are so near grasping the horns of Taurus, to admire the glory of of the position taken; yet I have proven conclusively to those regions of terrible repute into which tile angels the trooping stars; but one real bodily expedition of that the inspired writers of the Old Testament, and that kept not their first estate were cast when they the sort would forever cure us of such fancies. Perhaps Christ and the writers of the New Testament, all were expelled from heaven; nevertheless certain facts of some others also; for, when our thoughts go yacht- recognize the authority and Mosaic authorship of the within our reach seem to weigh strongly in that ing it through space, they are very apt to take first five books of the Canon. In fact, their author- direction. with them, not only our genial parlor temperature, but ship was not questioned until about the middle of the The word tartarus occurs but once in the New also our pleasant earthly light and colors. eighteenth century. WILL D. CURTIS. Testament Greek, and then in the. form of a verb, " to But, in cast down to tartarus," or, as rendered in our version, point of fact, the starry spaces are awfully dark. Those " cast down to hell." 2 Pet. 2 : 4. " For if God who visit the higher regions of our atmosphere, by HEB. 12 ; I, 2. spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] mountains or balloons, tell us that the pleasant blue down to hell, and delivered them into chains of dark- gradually passes into an intense black. At last the stars glitter on a background of perfect jet. To an THERE are two expressions in these verses which are ness, to be reserved unto judgment." observer out in mid-heaven, the whole sphere would very often misapprehended. Tartarus, then, is the present hell of the fallen seem muffled in a horrible pall, save just at the points 1. " We also are compassed about with so great a angels, Where is this place ? Grove's Greek and where the heavenly bodies are. He would have the cloud of witnesses." This is frequently urged as an incen- English dictionary defines it to be "the infernal impression of not being able to see an inch before him. tive to duty, in that '' so great a cloud of witnesses" are regions, hell of the poets, a dark place, prison, He would see sun, moon, and stars, all at the same beholding our actions; but this is not the sense of the dungeon, jail." Dr. Scott says that its meaning time; but they would look as if hissing on a sea of ink. text. These witnesses are not beholders, but testifiers, " must not be sought from the fables of heathen poets, The blackness would seem solid enough to be cut with who, as in chap. 11, have left their testimony on rec- but from the general tenor of the Scriptures." Dr. a knife. An Egypt. in the sky would seem to him to ord to the power of faith, as witnesses, are brought Bloomfield says that it is " an intensive reduplication have completely overrun its Spain, and indeed its into court, not to behold the proceedings, but to of the very old word tar, which in the earliest dialects seemed to have signified dark." Parkhurst, in his whole atlas of celestial empires. And should he try testify to the truth. to express his feelings, and to say, ' How awful is this The Greek word martur is defined, " A witness ; Greek Lexicon, says : " Tartarus, in its proper blackness ?" How glorious are these luminaries ! ' one who bears testimony," and has this signification physical sense, is the condensed, solid, and immovable no sound, nor specter of a sound, could issue from his only, in all its forms. Those who died for the word of darkness which surrounds the material universe." shouting lips." God were, pre-eminently, called marturs, or witnesses, Just what Dr. Parkhurst means by " condensed, It is estimated that the atmosphere of our earth is because they were willing to testify to the faith of solid, immovable darkness," it would perhaps be about forty-five miles deep. That is, if we could as- Jesus to the loss of their lives. difficult to determine ; and when he says that it cend from any point on the earth's surface, forty-five The excellent hymn commencing thus :— " surrounds the material universe," it is uncertain miles, we should pass beyond the atmosphere, and into " Awake, my soul stretch every nerve," whether lie means the space around each of the created bodies which compose the universe, or that space which this space, so graphically described, of empty, icy, has this misapprehension incorporated in it, in the surrounds them all taken together, the space beyond blackness; we should, in other words, be in tartarus. lines,— the limit of God's creative work, beyond where a star- When the fallen angels were cast out into this space, " A cloud of witnesses around no world or planet was assigned them as a resting Hold thee in full survey." sun shines, or a planet revolves. But, however this may be, the definition of the word, as given by all the place for the soles of their feet. It was a fearful. 2. "Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of testimony to them, that they were entitled to no place in our faith." Front this it is inferred that Jesus finishes lexicographers, points unmistakably to surrounding regions of darkness. Its use in the Scriptures implies all the universe. No wonder that they should have our faith by putting an end to it in bringing the attempted to gain possession of some one of the fair realization of its object. The Greek telciotes is used the same. And we think we find evidence to show that all the intervening spaces between the created worlds of God's creation. Alas that ours should in this form in no other text. It is defined, " A have been the unfortunate one ! But let us not lose finisher, perfecter, one who completes and perfects worlds of the universe are regions of this character, and are therefore the tartarus of the Scriptures. heart ; for as much lower as we have fallen, so much anything." Hence this scripture does not teach that higher shall we be raised through the glorious re- Jesus terminates our faith, but that he both originates In a work entitled " Ecce Coelum," by E. F. Burr, D.D., pp. 40-43, we find the following description of demption of Jesus Christ, now soon to be accomplished. and perfects it, or carries it into completeness. It —Review and _Herald. recognizes a progression in faith, and teaches us• to the interplanetary voids :— look to Jesus, who is the author and perfecter of faith, " Popularly speaking, this great space which for help and assurance when our faith is tried by environs us on all sides, and contains the heavenly ON Jude 7, Dr. Barnes says : " The phrase eternal chastisement or afflictions. J. H. W. bodies, is empty. It is substantially a vacuum. The fire ' is one that is often used to denote future punish-. ancients said that nature abhors a vacuum; if so, she ment, as expressing the, severity and intensity of thel has plenty of abhorring to do. There is no atmosphere suffering. As here used, it cannot mean that the fires wilAr WAS DONE AWAY ? pervading space; we cduld not breathe in its mid-intervals which consumed Sodom and Gomorrah were literally one single moment, there is nothing there that our eternal, or were kept always burning ; for that was TPA 2 Oor. 3 : 7, 8: "But if tho ministration of death, written and on- graven in stones, was glorious, so .hat the children of Israel could not senses could perceive„Vs we ascend from the earth, true. The expression seems to denote, in this connees stencifetly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance ; we find the air gradually becomes thinner; and La tion, two things : (1.) That the destruction of the which glory was to be done away ; how shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious ?" Place has shown, that, :After a few miles, it must cease cities of the plains, with their inhabitants, was as entire IN this text Paul speaks of something as done entirely. Beyond that point, very large solid bodies, and perpetual as if the fires had been always burning, away. The unbiased reader would naturally refer the though moving with enormous velocity, are found to —the consumption was absolute and enduring ; the_ relative "which," in the expression "which was to be encounter not the smallest perceptible resistance. sinners were wholly cut off, and the cities forever ren- done away," to the immediate antecedent "glory." Their places, as computed on the supposition that they dered desolate ; and (2.) that in its nature and dura- But this would spoil the Antinomian's argument. The m (ye in the vacuum, are such as we actually find tion this was a striking emblem of the destruction which, common version inserts the word " glory" after the them. At the same time, there is reason to believe will come upon the ungodly." word " which," making it read, " Which glory was to that the vacuum may not be absolutely perfect. Certain be done away." The fact that the translators have facts which have come to light in late years have con- THE fundamental argument in favor of probation, inserted the word " glory" should lead any one at vinced many astronomers that we must allow the in an age to come, is the same as that used by Uni- least to inquire into the reason why before rejecting it. existence of an exceedingly dilute form of matter per- versalists and Spiritualists in favor of progression after- While they do sometimes, merely to conform to their vading space. It is nothing that we could detect in death ; namely, what they decide that God ought to, understanding of the text, insert words which would the ordinary, sensible way; we could nut weigh it, nor do. aving decided what God ought to do, in order better be omitted, the words they supply are often see it, nor receive sounds through it; we could not feel to give all an equal chance, they then search out the. absolutely demanded by the construction of the Greek, it, should we strike our hands through it with our scriptures which sound most like favoring their views.. and hence cannot be omitted consistently with the utmost force. Such a mere nothing is it, It is only The major premise is their own judgment. Would, grammatical necessities of the passage. when some very light body goes rushing through it, at that they could see this.—Gospel Sickle. i08 BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE Vol. 3, No. 1.

NOTES BY THE WAY. the light of his truth only upon those who walk in Ptioionag. the path of obedience laid down in his word. Search THE following extract from a letter from Bro. Wm. and see. If the Lord says, Give, do it cheerfully, and HE CHOSE THIS PATH FOR THEE. Farr, who, with his family, left Melbourne last March in his own appointed way ; that is the only just and for America via England, will be of interest to equal way. W. J. EIM.kLE. many • 41. 1 HE chose this path for thee. After leaving Albany, West Australia, our next MISSIONARY EXPERIENCE. No feeble chance, nor hard, relentless fate, But love, his love, hath placed thy footsteps here ; calling place was Aden at the entrance of the Red Sea, He knew the way was rough and desolate, after a run of about six thousand miles. - On the 3d As an illustration of how work may be done, tire Knew how thy heart would often sink with fear; of April we stopped twelve hours almost under the line following account is given of one woman's work. Yet tenderly he whispered, " Child, I see in about 71 deg. east longitude. It seemed like a city Her heart was all aglow with the truths of the third This path is best for thee." of six hundred people set down in mid-ocean. On the angel's message, and she longed to see others rejoicing He chose this path for thee. 8th we sighted Cape Guardafui on the coast of Africa. in it as she rejoiced. She began each day with earliest Though well he knew sharp thorns would tear thy feet, It was high land, rock and sand, a rough-looking prayer for strength to do its duties. Then, believing Knew well that brambles would obstruct the way, that her home was a testimony to her religion, she Knew all the hidden dangers thou would'st meet, country. Knew how thy faith would falter day by day, " On the 10th inst. we came to Aden. This is said began to work there. Every room was as neat as any And still the whisper echoed, "Yes, I see to be one of the hottest places in the world. They reasonable person could wish, and her house was a This path is best for thee." told me that rain has been unknown here for years, and place of rest and refreshing. He chose this path for thee. it looks like it. The noise and confusion seemed In order to obtain money for missionary purposes, And well he knew that thou must tread alone like Babel let loose. Arabs and Coolies were yelling she rented two rooms and took the care ,)f the lodger:. Its gloomy vales and ford each flowing stream ; continually, selling deer's horns, sharks' teeth, shells, Besides this, she did washing for a few pens ins ; but Knew how thy bleeding heart would sobbing moan, no one knew of this, excepting the parties concerned. " Dear Lord, to wake, and find it all a dream," etc., generally asking about four times what they will Love 'Scanned it all, yet still could say, " T see take in the end. Her husband was not a believer, and she had to This path is best for thee." " Soon after leaving Aden we pass through the manage so that he might not be disturbed. It seemed Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, the 'gate of tears,' so called that tact and wisdom were given her from heaven, and He chose this path for thee, that the angels helped her in her many duties. E'en while he knew the fearful midnight gloom from the dangers attending navigation here. And the Thy timid, shrinking soul must travel through ; Red Sea must be a dangerous sea to navigate. There Nearly every afternoon she visited her neighbors for How towering rocks would oft before thee loom, are rocks to the right of you, rocks to the left of you, the sole purpose of interesting them in the truth. She And phantoms grim would meet thy frightened view ; rocks in front of you, dark and forbidding. was a stranger when she entered the town, and knew Still comes the whisper. " My beloved, I see no one to introduce her to the people ; but " where • This path is best for thee." " On coming on the boat, and looking around among the passengers, I found a few who were Christians. I there's a will there's a way." Like the Waldenses, He chose this path for thee. spoke to a young man who seemed very earnest in study- she went upon her mission under the guise of a peddler ; What need'st thou more? This sweeter truth to know, that is, she carried a stock of " health goods " and That all along these strange, bewildering ways, ing the Bible. I showed him the necessity of keeping O'er rocky steeps and where dark rivers flow, all the commandments ; but he said they had nothing periodicals, and went from house to house as a can- His loving arms will bear thee " all the days." to do with him, as he walked by a higher law. I asked vasser. How many avenues for doing her work opened A few steps more, and thou thyself shalt see him to join me in holding a prayer-meeting or Bible- before her ! Her cheerful, smiling face found its re- This path is best for thee. —Se?. reading ; and after he had prayed long and earnestly, flection in the faces of those she met. She found as he told me, the answer was that he could have no mothers in need of counsel, sorrowers in need of sym- WHY STAND YE ALL THE DAY IDLE ? fellowship with me. We have placed the truth before pathy, sick in need of care, and, as she had educated others, and some have acknowledged that the set enth- herself in the simple methods of water treatment, she day Sabbath is the right day ; but this same young soon made her art of use in these cases, and thus hearts No WORDS can express the importance of the truths were opened for the word of the message. Fimenta- applicable to the present time. Their acceptance will man and a Presbyterian minister are trying to convince them to the contrary. tions and foot-baths, and the touch of kind hands, are secure to each an immortal existence, complete in not to be despised as humble agencies by which to win happiness ; while those who refuse to heed the solemn " There has not been much opportunity for family devotion, as for the past two weeks we have had to souls for Jesus. warning must drink of the wine of the wrath of God, After the first canvass of the town. this sister found, poured out without mixture, and be forever lost in the sleep on deck on chairs on account of the heat in the tropics ; but we always try to hallow the beginning on a second visit, that she was regarded as a friend. darkness and gloom of an eternal death. There is no She had succeeded in selling some of her health goods neutral ground ; we either gather with Christ or scatter and ending of the Sabbath by prayer. We remember the brethren and sisters of the Melbourne church to and in obtaining subscriptions for Good Health. She abroad. It is a battle and a march toward the king- now appointed Bible-readings and distributed papers dom of God. To be inactive at such a time is as sin- our Father, and request you not to forget us in your prayers." in her route. Her work soon assumed such propor- ful in God's sight as open hostilities in ordinary times. tions that it was more than she could do, and then, like Though results of such momentous importance folio* THE WORK . IN OTHER LANDS. the importunate widow, she prayed for help until some the proclamation of this message, God has ordained Bible-workers came to her assistance. The town was that man shall be the agent to carry it to his fellow- THE camp-meeting season in America opened with stirred through these efforts, and a church was finally men. The Spirit of God has brought the truth to bear a largely attended meeting in Selma, California, established. There is work for all in the missionary upon our hearts, revealing the only path of safety, and March 22 to April 1. Sixteen converts received field, and " he that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing the fate of those who reject it. Now the question baptism at this meeting. Other camp-meetings have precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, arises, What does God. require of us ? Shall we be been appointed for the early summer months. bringing his sheaves with him."—Missionary Reading. justified in remaining quietly at home, seeking our own Training-schools for the education of canvassers, comfort and the things of this life ? The command is, colporters, and Bible-workers have been held in Lon- MEN WANTED. " Go ye into all the world ;" " freely ye have received, don, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and in several places freely give." When imminent danger threatens any in America. These schools have been successful, and WE need live men to carry the cross of Jesus Christ portion of the country, and lives are in peril, there are a number of the students'are doing efficient work in and plant it on every hill-top, where the eyes of dying some who will spare no pains to give the warning ; but the cause of God. men may catch its saving light. Away with the heresy now infinitely more is at stake, and who is stirred ? During the winter and early spring, meetings are that " any kind of a man can do the work of the church." Let us carefully consider what occupies our daily and held by ministers in the various State Conferences Drones don't make God's honey_ yet. When a man most earnest thoughts. Is it to devise ways and means wherever there are openings in churches or school- talks for God, his thoughts should be the strongest, his to advance the cause of God ? The humblest talent houses, Sometimes these meetings are held where words the sweetest, and his tonics the most persuasive. can be of service in the cause of present truth ; but it there is already a church, and sometimes in entirly His speech should burn as with " a live coal front God's requires daily and prayerful study to know how to labor new places. Additions are made to the churches, altar." When a man works for God, let him do it successfully, and this will bring the mind into a con- small companies are brought out on the truth, and with all his might. God's work needs the clearest dition to be susceptible to the impressions of the Spirit churches organized where meetings had been held the brain, the fleetest foot, the readiest hand, the quickest of God. There is a crisis in the experience of individ- previous season. In this way over two hundred have eye. The true Christian is not a fossil, or a trilobite, uals when they waver between right and wrong. At been added to the ranks of Sabbath-keeping Advent- or a mummy, but a living creature, with activities and such a time a word fitly spoken, or some act of disin- ists, as reported by the last mail from America. sympathies born of God's Spirit. terested benevolence, will often turn the scale in the Brn. Boyd and Hankins are holding a tent-meeting in We need enlightened men, not as the world counts right direction ; whereas if the opportunity is lost, the Cape Town, South Africa, with good prospect of success. wisdom, but enlightened with God's wisdom. God individual passes beyond the reach of help. The workers in Central Europe are cheered by the indeed chooses weak and foolish agencies, but be makes The true missionary will watch for such openings. addition of new Sabbath-keepers in Russia, Switzer- them strong and wise. He has a wondrous process in God has laid a responsibility upon us which we cannot land, and other places. Colporters and canvassers are his divine discipline by which the base metals of human lay aside. Are we sinful ? There is a fountain in meeting with success ; the sales of denominational life turn, in his crucible, into pure gold. Oh, for the which we may wash and be clean. Are we deficient in publications are encouraging. wisdom which is from above ! view of infirmities ? '• Most gladly," says the apostle, *- We need brave men. God's church has no use for " will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power WILL A MAN ROB GOD ? cowards. She does not recruit for camp service. She of Christ may rest upon me." By refusing to do what cannot accomplish her warfare by the aid of men who we can in the cause of God, we commit an error that THIS is a most important question for those to con- " turn back in the day of battle." She needs men who will fall upon us with crushing weight in the Judgment. sider who have taken hold on time third angel's message, can " endure hardness as good soldiers." Men who My brother, my sister, why stand ye all the day idle ? —the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. have learned the art of war from God. " He teacheth Are you unable to explain the truth to others ? The Our duty to God comes first. He has ordained a way my hands to war, and my fingers to fight." Men who . publications will speak for you. Are you pressed with that those who preach the gospel should live by the have "put on the whole armor of God." Men who, 'necessary cares and burdens ? Remember the lilies of gospel ; and what can be more just and equal than for like the Gadites, can " handle shield and buckler, the field, the sparrows that have neither storehouse nor us to return a tenth of the blessings bestowed upon us, whose faces are like the faces of lions, who are swift barns. God careth for them, are ye not much better ? or as Paul puts it, give as the Lord has prospered us, as roes upon the mountains, and who can swim the Do you lack wisdom ? Ask of God, who giveth to all for the work of the ministry ? How is it possible for Jordan when it overflows all its banks." Men who men liberally, and it shall be given you. The word any to keep the commandments of God, and yet rob can say yes to right, and mean it ; who can say no to comes to us, " Go forward." God will open the way him who gave them ? Those who do so will sooner or wrong, and stand by it. Men brave enough to be poor, to surmount the difficulties. M. L. HUNTLEY. later get into darkness, and turn aside. God will bestow to be self-denying, to be honest.—Sel. JULY, 1888. BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 109

views. He regards the theory of conditional immor- do not know their rights, and where, consequently, the 'abut Zopim tality quite a " respectable heresy " as compared with priests are nearly all-powerful. Hitherto the clerical that of a post-mortem salvation. Is it too much to party has been disloyal, now it is rebellious. hope that on this point Mr. Spurgeon will continue on THE CONTROVERSY OF 1888. We were lately staying with Italian friends in a the " up-grade " ? town in Lombardy. Our host held a high position in TriuNDER-Boi,Ts do not ordinarily fall from a clear The meeting of the Union came, and a severe the law courts, and so we niet all the society of the struggle was expected, as the friends of Mr. Spurgeon sky, except in metaphors, neither are important events place. At no gathering, however, did we find a priest within the Union were expected to press that such a in the religious' or political world the products of the among the- guests. We asked the reason of this. declaration of faith should be adopted as would shut moment. The great agitation of the present year in " Because," said our host, " friendship With a priest out those who held to the " larger hope." To this the England, known as the " down-grade controversy," means disloyalty to the Government. Any one seen majority of the Union were evidently opposed, and a which has shaken the centers of religious life, not only with a priest is at once suspected. We feel sure lie is division was imminent. At the last moment, however, in the Baptist denomination, but throughout the ranks not a good man—at least, we know this about him, he quite to the surprise of all, a compromise was effected of non-conformity, much to the delight of many church- is an enemy to the state." Last summer, at Venice, upon the basis of a brief declaration of doctrinal belief men, may appear to some to have been rather we heard ex-Padre Gavazzi, the eloquent leader and and a statement of a historical fact," as it was called, suddenly brought to the front, and impulsively to a preacher of the Free Italian Church, when lecturing to the effect that some had accepted other interpreta- climax, in the resignation of Mr. C. H. Spurgeon from on the lay schools, denounce the Pope and priests as tions than the usual construction placed upon the words the Baptist Union. But however unexpectedly such the worst foes of Italy ; that they are disloyal to the " eternal punishment," and the Union had " found no an issue has come to the outside world, the events of core; that they are against the King, against the difficulty in working with them." The statement of the past year or two have pointed to this as the final Government, against real education, against civil doctrine was intended to quiet those appealing to the outcome of the conflict between the old and the new liberty, against all the rights as men and citizens which Union to pronounce as to its position respecting evan- school of thought within the Baptist ranks. Italy had fought and bled on many a battle-field to gelical truth, and the historical note to cover those who Mr. Spurgeon's zeal and ability have placed him secure. A town-councilor of this place, when calling hope that " good will fall at last, far off at last, to all." foremost in the strife against the tide of unbelief which upon us the other day, said : " We never shall make The interpretation placed upon this statement shows is rolling over the pulpits of this day under the tame our young men honest and patriotic until we deliver that the action of the Union is in every sense of the of " advanced thought." He has earnestly contended them from the influence of the priests." Any offense word a compromise, for it is made to approve those who for that which he believed to be the faith once delivered against the state, the priests not only condone but indulge the " larger hope." The mover of the declara- to the saints, and with voice and pen has denounced often commend. The church is thus regarded all over tion said : " I would not only rather leave this Baptist the new school of thought which is endeavoring to turn Italy as the enemy of the state, and her activity as Union, I would rather a millstone were hung about my the truths of revelation into pleasing fable. Over a such comes out everywhere in a thousand ways; and neck and I should be cast into the sea, than refuse year ago there began to appear in the Sword and we have reason to believe that she will more openly fellowship to a man simply because he shared in the Trowel, Mr. Spurgeon's organ, articles pointing out and emphatically show herself in this character in the `larger hope.'' The hearty approval which this speech defections in the Baptist denomination, and alleging, immediate future. met, showed it to be the general mind of the Baptist that, as a body, they were on the " down-grade." The Now, hithertO the state has not meddled with the Unicn. The friends of the old gospel in the Union general tenor of these articles will be gathered from a church except to fulfill the obligations it undertook were far from satisfied with the result, but evidently brief quotation: " A new religion has been initiated, toward it. Roman Catholicism is the established concluded not to push upon the Union a step which it which is no in we Christianity than chalk is cheese. . religiom A certain number of churches are sustained would not take, and thus cause a division. Mr. . . The atonement is scouted, the inspiration of by Government money. The Pope himself, although Spurgeon himself writes in his magazine that he has, Scripture derided, • . . . the punishment of sin is he calls himself "the poor prisoner of the Vatican," is " serious doubts as to the practical value of what has turned into a fiction, and the resurrection into a myth. protected and provided for by the state. It is true been gained." . Certain ministers are making infidels." - he does not accept the handsome pension allowed him ; . . Again he says : " I am not convinced that we have These sturdy denunciations from so prominent a man but that is his affair. But now when the church a re d peace before us, or that we can arrive at a suc- had no little effect, and called upon all to take a stand trespasses on the province of the state, when it sets up cessful blending of two parties which so greatly differ upon one side or the other, and the battle opened. It its head, Le) XIII., as a rival to Humbert I., when from each other. . . . All has been done that can Was sadly apparent that many were evidently more con- it demands the restitution of the temporal power, the be done, and yet without violence to conscience we can- cerned that he should have laid bare the sins of the state must act, and it is acting with promptitude and not unite ; let us not attempt it any more, but each one denomination, than grieved at the conditions which firmness. In the very midst of the papal celebrations, go his own way in quiet, each striving honestly for that made it a duty for him to reveal and condemn the de- the Government took a most unexpected and decided which lie believes to be the revealed truth of God. I partures from the faith among them, The Freeman, step by turning out of the highest civil post in Rome, could have wished that instead of saving the Union, or organ of the Baptist denomination," has from the first that of the Syndic, the .duke of Torlonia, the repre- even purifying it, the more prominent thought had been deprecated the course of Mr. Spurgeon. Early in the sentative of one of the richest and most influential to conform everything to the word of the Lord." families of the capital, because he went and presented controversy it spoke as follows : " The prevalence of Thus for a time rests a controversy which has been false doctrine cannot be fairly estimated by the noise his homage to the Pope. A jubilee address was gotten productive of good in revealing to many lovers of truth that may be made about it. If our young people are up in which the hope was expressed that the Pope a tendency in the religious world well meriting the told that, after all the earnest proclamation of evan- would yet regain the temporal power. ' The syndics of term "down-grade," and which, it is to be hoped, will gelical truth during these many years, a new doctrine several towns signed this address, both in their own inspire them to seek out its cause and cure. Its in- names and in those of their colleagues. These men is now gaining the victory, what is more natural than fluence will be ponderous in the shaping of religious that they should be led to doubt an old and supposed the Government dismissed from their posts. In one thought and life in the immediate future, and - its im- failing faith?" case we know of, and perhaps this thing happened in portance from the standpoint of " present truth " is others, the town-councilors wrote to the Government Here was the dividing line. Should they wink at the only apology I can offer for attempting to sketch departures from the faith and unbelief in the pulpit, explaining that they had signed the address in this outline of the still undecided " down-grade con- lest people should suspect that all was not right in the ignorance of its real meaning and drift, and begged to troversy." W. A. S. great Baptist denomination, on should they boldly de- withdraw their signatures. In many cases the post of nounce error, and refuse fellowship with doctrines so at London, May, 1888. school-master is held by priests. Some of these men variance with the gospel of Christ? In October last, not only signed the petition, but induced their pupils Mr. Spurgeon resigned his connection with the Baptist CONFLICT BETWEEN CHURCH AND and their parents to do so. The public education Union, enumerating, as a reason for his action, various STATE IN ITALY. department turned all these men adrift. Indeed, a doctrines held by persons within the Union, with whom strong effort is being made to remove all priests from the Union was avowedly in harmony. Chief among ITALY at present is fast approaching a conflict which the public schools, and to declare that the priesthood, these was the theory of future probation, or the " larger may have far-reaching results. That conflict is be- as a body of men, is disqualified to hold the office of hope," as its disciples are wont to call it. After an tween the state and the church, between the King and Government teacher.—Alexander Robertson, in Inde- unsuccessful attempt to arrange with Mr. Spurgeon a the Pope, between a popular constitutional government pendent. basis of reunion, the Baptist Council voted that the and a clerical oligarchy. Every day is demonstrating charges preferred by Mr. S. " ought not to have been the impossibility of the co-existence of these powers. A GERMAN paper of a recent date says : " Now, 'we made." Hitherto they have existed together, but only in a think it must be clear, even to the most simple of Thus the matter was left for consideration at the state of armed neutrality, ready to throw themselves politicians, that all Europe is sitting on a volcano. meeting of the Baptist Union in April, and meanwhile at each other should a cases belli arise. The jubilee Little outbreaks from time to time show that the main the pros and cons of the subject were discussed freely of the Pope has brought that crisis within appreciable crater, although slumbering, will certainly break out, in the pulpit and the press. That the charges were well distance. Already we hear of skirmishes between the perhaps against the will and power of those evil in- founded was amply demonstrated during the interim outposts all along the line. fluences stirring it up, and on a day of which they have preceding the meeting of the Union, it being tacitly The late papal celebrations gathered the dignitaries no presentiment." An American paper adds : " No admitted that even in the Baptist Council there were of the church, lay an.l clerical, round their head. They such numbers of men have ever been in arms since the some who indulged the restorationist view. But it has were thus enabled to consult together, to measure their world began, and no such weapons of destruction have been well remarked that the counter-charges against strength, and to determine on their future course of ever been known as those with which the nations of Mr. Spurgeon's orthodoxy have been the strongest action. Previous to this they were anything but. united. Europe are now preparing to destroy one another." weapons in the hands of those whom he denounced. Personal ambition, family differences, and jealousies of various kinds, kept them apart. Now there is at Of course this does not affect the truthfulness of THE direct loss to the company and the employees his testimony as to the existing unbelief ; but as a least a temporary agreement to sink these petty causes from the strike on the Burlington and Quincy Railroad rigid Calvinist he has taught views which will not of estrangement and quarrel, and to unite their forces as estimated by a Chicago journal, is tr551;320. The stand the test of the Bible, and his protest against un- to make a stand and fight for the restitution of the indirect losses to the community would greatly swell belief has been greatly weakened by his own inconsist- temporal power. The clerical party has received in- this amount. The leaders of the labor organizations encies, of which his opposers have made telling capital. structions to take even a more active part than they have decided that strikes are a failure, and they now Mr. Spurgeon has in the past allowed little sympathy have -hitherto done in municipal and senate elections, propose to try education as a means of securing the and to do everything in their power to secure the with those who held to the Bible doctrines of condi- laborers' rights. tional immortality and the " everlasting destruction" elections of clericals to the " Giunta" and to all public of the wicked ; but as a hopeful feature of the present offices. These instructions are already being carried controversy it is announced on good authority that he out with a measure of success in various provincial LABOR strikes are spreading in some sections of will no longer refuse union with those who hold these towns and villages, where the people are ignorant and Germany. 110 BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES. VoL. 3, No. 7.

and in those in which it is condemned, that which have twenty-nine years still in expectancy according to efaltit and Btmpance. had undergone fermentation is meant ? Any one who statistical estimates. has confidence in the inspired character of the " The annual swallowing of wine, beer, and distilled THE PRICE OF A DRINK. Scriptures will have no hesitancy in answering in the liquors in the world called civilized, exceeds 6,000,000,- affirmative. 000 gallons, or about 100,000,000 hogsheads, equiva- " FIVE cents a glass ! " Does any one think We are now prepared to consider some of the texts lent to about 10,000,000 hogsheads of alcohol. That that is really the price of a drink ? in which wine is mentioned. " These are approximate estimates based on data in " Five cents a glass," I hear you say, J. H. KELLOGG, M.D. Mulhall's Dictionary of Statistics.' "—Tllustrated "Why, that isn't very much to pay." Christian Weekly. Ah, no, indeed ; 'tis a very small sum "Look at this : Maine, fifty years ago had 13 distil- You are passing over 'twixt finger and thumb ; And if that were all that you gave away, WHAT TO EAT AND WHEN TO EAT. leries ; now, none. Then, 500 open bar taverns ; now, It wouldn't be very much to pay. none. Then, 10,000 drunkards ; now, 2000. Then, IT is provoking to see people swallowing some ex- 2000 open grog-shops ; now, few. Then, 200 deaths The price of a drink ? Let him decide Who has lost his courage and lost his pride, pensive and ridiculous compound just before breakfast, annually from delirium tremens ; now, 50. Then, And lies a groveling heap of clay, for the purpose of purifying their blood. Then they 1,500 paupers ; now, very few. Then, poverty ; now, Not far removed from a beast, to-day. will sit down and gorge themselves with ham and eggs, plenty. Then, wretchedness ; now, happiness." This 'The price of a drink? Let that one tell buckwheat cakes, syrup, and two or three cups of coffee. is what prohibition has done for Maine. Who sleeps to-night in a murderer's cell, And then again at noon before the stomach has fairly "It is just as natural that the saloon should breed And feels within him the fires of hell. digested the previous meal, and rested, it is again filled lawlessness, indecency, and every foul thing, as it is Honor and virtue, love and truth, with roasted meats, rich gravies, pastries, and often tea that a viper should breed vipers. It is impossible to All the glory and pride" of youth, Hopes of manhood, and wreath of fame, or bottled beer or ale. associate anything pure or manly, right or true, with High endeavor and noble aim,— The first thing to do to purify the blood is not to put. the saloon. The Philadelphia License Court has set These are the treasures thrown away anything into the mouth that will make the blood im- before it the problem of trying to find a class of As the price of drink from day to day. pure. All fried meats, rich gravies, puddings, pastries, honorable men to manage the drinking places of that " Five cents a glass I " How Satan laughed, and cakes should be avoided ; but plain, well-cooked, city. The quest will be in vain."—New York As over the bar the young man quaffed nutritious food at regular meals, and never between Observer. The beaded liquor ; for the demon knew meals, with an abundance of fruit in the diet, will in- " The whisky rings [of America] own more The terrible work that drink would do ; And ere the morning the victim lay sure g«i, pure blood and a clear complexion, that is, property than the slave-owners ever did. They have With his life-blood swiftly ebbing away, if proper attention is given to exercise and pure air. larger financial interests at stake every year now in And that was the price he paid, alas Young women must remember that air and exercise their trade than the leaders of the slave-holders' For the pleasure of taking a social glass. are as essential as food in producing a good complexion rebellion had in their property in human beings in any The price of a drink ! if you want to know and good health. A number of deep inspirations of one year previous to the rebellion."—Joseph Cook. What some are willing to pay for it, go pure air every morning, with the exercise of expanding -1 Through that wretched tenement over there, the chest, and no tight lacing after, will do more for • With dingy windows and broken stair, DON'T WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF. Where foul disease like a vampire crawls, the color of your cheeks than all the compounds the drug store contains. Let the air and sunshine into With outstretched wings, o'er the mouldy walls. To retain or recover health, persons should be re- There poverty dwells with her hungry brood, your rooms, especially your sleeping rooms ; you might lieved from anxiety concerning disease. The mind has Wild-eyed as demons for lack of food ; better fade your carpet than destroy the roses on your power over the body. For a person to think he has a There shame, in a corner, crouches low; cheeks. Tea and coffee will make some complexions There violence deals its cruel blow , disease, will produce that disease. This we see effected opaque or pallid and sallow. And innocent ones are thus accursed when the mind is intensely concentrated upon the To pay the price of another's thirst. The good temperance people warn your father and disease of another. It is found in hispitals that sur- brother of the terrible enemy to be found in the dram "Five cents a glass ! " Oh, if that were r11, geons and physicians who make a specialty of a special shop ; but they never say a word about the danger The sacrifice would indeed be small ! disease are liable to die of it themselves ; and then that is lurking right in your own home, in that deadly But the money's worth is the least amount mental power is so great that sometimes people die of We pay ; and whoever will keep account tea-pot, which stands on the stove all day, forming a disease which they have only in imagination. We have Will learn the terrible waste and blight tannic acid which turns the lining of your stomach into That follows the ruinous appetite. seen a person seasick in anticipation of a voyage before leather. It is no wonder that young women lose their " Five cents a glass I" Does any one think reaching the vessel. We have known persons to die good complexions, and become sallow and nervous and That that is really the price of a drink ? of cancer in the stomach, when they had no cancer, or are called old maids at twenty-four. They seldom con- —Josephine Pollard, in N. 0. Christian Advocate. any other mortal disease. A blindfolded man slightly sider how much harm is being done by that cup of pricked in the arm has fainted and died from believing strong tea at each meal, and too often a cup or two WINE AND THE BIBLE. that he was bleeding to death.—Sel. between meals. SCRIPTURAL DISTINCTIONS OF WINE. We can find hundreds of women, young girls, and PULSE THE MOST NUTRITIOUS FOOD. IN the English version of the Scriptures, the dis- even men and children, whose nervous system is com- tinctions made in the original are often obscured or pletely ruined by this unwise and unnatural habit of THE flesh-yielding qualities of all the pulse—the wholly lost. This is especially true in the present drinking two or three cups of strong tea or coffee each bean, pea, and lentil—family are very notable, but by instance. In the Hebrew, the language in which the day of their lives. Even if there were no harmful quali- no means a modern discovery. If Esau paid dearly Old Testament was written, different kinds of wine ties in the tea itself, the habit of taking a liquid when for his mess of pottage, he had at least the advantage are indicated by different words, which are all rendered you are masticating food is contrary to the laws of health ; of a bowlful of the very best vegetable food for the sup- in the English translation by the one word "wine." for it prevents digestion and. brings on headaches, port of his fleshy, hairy body ; inasmuch as Esau's The principal words thus employed are yayin, shekar, neuralgia, dys2epsia, and their kindred diseases. " red pottage" was made of "lentils," as appears from and tirosh. An Italian philosopher once said : " Eat only when Gen. 25 : 30-34. Yayin, according to the Biblical critics, refers to you need and relish food. Chew thoroughly, that it Listen, too, ye patronizers of the Arabic Revelanta, the juice of the grape in any form. It might be sweet may do you good. Have it well cooked and unspiced. Relevanta, Ervelanta, and all the other change-ring- or sour, fermented or unfermented. He who takes medicine is ill advised."—A. B. Jewett, in Temperance Reformer. ing in the pulse—the pea, bean, and lentil—line to the Shekar, or shechar, was the term applied to any words of Daniel on this special subject : " Prove thy sweet juice derived from any other source besides the servants, I beseech thee, ten days, and let them give grape. It is sometimes translated honey. It usually TEMPERANCE ITEMS. us pulse to eat and water to drink ; then let our coun- refers to the juice of the palm-tree, or of its fruit, the tenances be looked upon before thee, and the counte- date ; and like yayin it included the fermented as " CoNcEnxixo communion wine, we commend the nance of the children that eat of the portion of the well as the unfermented condition of the juice. following to the learned brethren who insist upon the king's meat. . . . And at the end of ten days Tirosh was applied to the ripe fruit of the vine, fermented article as necessary to the perfection of the their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh and to the fresh juice of the grape before fermenta- service. Dr. Ellis, of New York City, says that while than all the children which did eat of the portion of the tion had commenced. It is often translated " new in Egypt he ' visited the American missionaries at Cairo, king's meat. Thus Melzar took away the portion of wine." and was told by them that when they told the Copts, the meat and the wine that they should drink, and In brief, then, yayin means fermented or unfer- who are the descendants of the early Christians of gave them pulse." And thus, too, pul-e appears to be mented wine or juice of grapes ; shekar means fer- Egypt, that the Western churches were in the habit of " a dainty dish," not only fit " to set before a king," mented or unfermented juice of the palm-tree, of dates, using fermented, or " shop wine," as the Copts call it, but better than all the king's meat and all the king's or of other sweet fruit; tirosh means the sweet, as a communion wine, they were horrified at the idea. wine. And, moreover, with reference to modern unfermented juice of the grape, or new wine. One of the missionaries said that the wine used by the chemical analysis and its results, so far as regards this The Hebrews used the term yayin for wine made from societies under their charge was prepared by the Copts, precise discription food, and considering the differ- grapes, in any (ff its stages, just as we apply the term who were members, by soaking raisins in water, and of ence between heat-giving, which, in fact., is a sort of cider to the fresh juice of the apple, or to the same pressing the juice from them.'"—Baptist Weekly. fat-yielding material, and actual solid flesh-yielding juice after it has fermented or become " hard" by age. " The Sultan and his Government have ordered the substance, how peculiarly and strictly, and even chem- The Greek oinos corresponds exactly with - the Hebrew discontinuance of the liquor traffic in Constantinople, ically, correct is the expression "fatter in flesh," when yayin. and the six powers contiguous to the North Sea, Great the flesh-yielding, rather than the merely fist-yielding, The foregoing is certainly sufficient to show beyond Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, and quality of the food is considered.—Pocock. all chance for reasonable doubt, that there are two Denmark, have entered into an agreement whereby the kinds of wine recognized in the Bible, one of which sale of spirituous liquors to fishermen and other persons was sweet, unfermented, and unintoxicating, and the on board fishing vessels is prohibited."—Sel. ELEVEN thousand nine hundred and forty-seven other fermented and intoxicating. The same term is "The expectancy of life for hard drinkers or drunk- British soldiers in India are members of the Soldiers' often used for both kinds. If, then, we find the ards at the age of twe, ty is only fifteen years, while Total 'Abstinence AsSociation. Bible in some instances speaking of wine in terms of for the sober young man of twenty it is forty-four commendation, and in others condemning it in the years. For drunkards at thirty the life-expectancy is THE drunkard's ladder—spices, tea, coffee, tobacco most forcible manner, would it not be most reason- fourteen years, but for the sober man it is thirty-six and rum. able to suppose that in those cares in which wine is years. Drunkards who reach the age of forty have commended, the unfermented kind is referred to ? an expectancy of eleven years, while sober men of forty DISEASE is the interest paid for many pleasures. JULY, 1888. BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 111

It is estimated that 75,000 persons were rendered home- OME HAND BOOK OF HYGIENE AND 41m ummall, less by the recent floods in Germany, and the property ,Z RATIONAL MEDICINE. loss is not less than £10,000,000. • BY J. H. KELLOGG, M. D. Rebellions and famines have wrought their work in RELIGIOUS. China. The destruction of human beings through these Member of the American and British Associations agencies during the past thirty-live years is estimated at Work has been commenced on the new Roman Catholic for the Advancement of Science; many millions, and provinces which once had a dense The Societd D' Hygiene of France, etc., etc. University at Washington, U. S. A. population are now sparsely inhabited. In August a World's Conference of Young Men's The report of the English inspector of mines for 18.87 This book contains 1,568 pages, and is illustrated with 500 engrav- Christian Associations is to be held in Stockholm, Sweden. shows that 568,026 persons were employed in connection ings, including 26 full-page colored plates, and a paper manikin, It is a perfect encyclopedia of physiology, hygiene, and the treatment A report comes from London that for the past fifteen with the mines in the three kingdoms. There were 881 fat al of disease, and is the most comprehensive, and practical scientific years the Empress Augusta of Germany has been a accidents, resulting in 1,051 deaths. The total output of work ever published on the subjects of which it treats. In more than 10,000 households, it is considered indispensable. Prices, cloth, 34s: Roman Catholic. the mines was 173,049,795 tons, of which 162,119,812 sheep, 42s; morroco, 50s. The Victorian Auxiliary of the British and Foreign tons were coal. Bible Society last year contributed £500 toward the funds The Sultan of Zanzibar, who died recently, left 27 wives of the parent society. and 232 children. He was the most noticeable of the :4ACTS FOR THE TIMES. A Spanish pastor at Malaga, Spain, has been sentenced rulers of the Dark Continent, was the friend and protector X to 28 months'imprisonment for publishing a pamphlet of Christian missions, and did much to bring before the BY GEORGE I. BUTLER, condemning Roman Catholic dogmas. civilized world a knowledge of the country explored by Livingstone and Stanley. This is a valuable work for reference. It is a compilation of facts, According to estimates made in 1883, there are in Eng- bringing together a mass of testi nony showing the fulfillment of land and Wales, 13,500,000 adherents of the Established Fifty Roman Catholic members of the House of Com- prophecy, and the present condition of society. It contains valuable mons attended a meeting recently held in Dublin to con- statistics on many subjects, religious and moral. By these is shown Church. while those accepting other creeds number the alarming increase, on sea and land, of disease, earthquakes, cy- 12,500,000. sider the Pope's action relative to the Home Rule agitation clones, and other disturbances. :80 pp. Price, 2s 6d. in Ireland. Resolutions were passed declaring that the A cheap food depot has been established in the East Pope had no right to interfere in Irish political matters, End, London, under the auspices of the Salvation Army. and that the allegations contained in his decree were un- EMPERANCE CHARTS. For a penny, an adult receives food and a night's lodging ; founded. The Bishop of Limerick has, since issued an for a halfpenny, bread or soup. able address exhorting the people to loyally obey the A school founded in Athens, Greece, more than fifty Pope's decree. years ago, for the higher education of young women, has These are a set of ten colored lithographic plates which depict in educated more than 20,000 girls. Its influence has been the most graphic manner, the ravages of alcohol among the delicate structures of the human body. The ten plates comprise thirty-eight felt in Asia Mhner, Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, and else- youghtro' ltpuoluut. different figures, exhibiting very forcibly the effects of alcohol and where. tobacco upon the heart, blood, brains, lungs, nerves, muscles, liver, kidneys and pulse of the devotees of these poisons. In the hands of Thirty-four missionary societies are at work among the an ordinary speaker even, these charts are made most potent advo- NOTICE I cates of temperance. Some are already in use in the Colonies with 200,000,000 of Africa ; in China, with its 350,000,000 good effect. Price, £310s. souls, 33 societies have begun work ; more than 50 soci- eties are bearing. the gospel message to the 250,000,000 of PERSONS wishing to remit money to this office, in payment India ; in Turkey. Persia, and Japan, mission schools and for books or for other purposes, should carefully note the KETCHES OF THE LIFE OF PAUL. churches are exerting a beneficial and more or less power- following :- ful influence. 1. In case stamps are sent, none but Victorian stamps will BY MIS. E. G. WHITE. The German Lutherans of the Baltic provinces of answer our purpose. Author of Great Controversy, Life of Christ, Min- Russia are feeling the oppressive power of the Govern- 2. For amounts over 10s. send Money Orders or Bank istry of Peter, etc. ment. Under the act compelling religious conformity, Drafts. payable to Echo PUBLISHING ITOUSE. the Minister of the Interior is authorized to suspend or When cheques are sent, the exchange will be charged to 3. A nicely bound book of 334 pages ornamented in gold and black. banish Lutheran p istors without any judicial inqUiry. Die sender. The incidents in the life of the great apostle are made to stand out in A hundred preachers in Livonia an 1 Courland have been If Postal Note or paper money be sent, register the letter; great promience, and the reader cannot fail to be interested in the 4. subject, as treated by this author. Price.,23. 6c1. warned, an 1 several pastors' wives in Esthonia have been otherwise it is at your own risk. marked for punishuthnt, for holding missionary meetings. 5. State explicitly what the money is for. • The United States Marshal, as receiver in the Govern- 6. Be careful to send name and fish/ address, so that we, can LAIN FACTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG. ment's suits to contisc rte property of the Mormon Church, acknowledge receipt. continues to search for and claim property which it is BY J. H. KELLOGG, M. D. alleged the church' has held and disposed of to individuals. AGENTS. The monthly rental of about £52 for the use of their own This work has passed through fourteen editions in the last three building is still paid by the Mormon Church to the re- years. It is commended by leading journalists, clergymen, physicians, and others who have examined it. It is a handsome octavo Volume of ceiver. The snits will he taken up to the court as a last Melbourne.-Mr. Fergusson, Temperance Hall, Ituss(11 512 pages Price, 19s 6,1 resort. While testifying before the examiner in these Street. suits, Angus M. 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A thirty-two page monthly magazine, devoted to the diss,minaiion of During the past winter, the cold was so intense in Corea true temperance principle., and instruction in the art of preserving heal' h. that kerosene oil froze and liquor bottles burst. It is emphatically A Journal for the People. Containing what everybody wants to know, and is thoroughly practical. Its range of subjects is nn. (ZOMING CONFLICT. The Nihilists of Russia are said to be reorganizing, limited, embracing everything that in any way affects the health. Its preparatory to renewed operations against the Govern- articles being short and pointed, it Is specially adapted to farmersonechan- ics, and housekeepers, ho have but little leisure for reading. It is just BY W. fl.. LITTLEJOHN'. ment. the journal that ersry family needs, and may be read with profit by all. France has decide I to follow the example of Great Price, 5s. per year. BIBLE ECHO, North, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria. This work presents to the mind of the reader the leading religions Britain, in arming merchant vessels to be used as auxil- question of America, and one that is at the present time attracting iaries of the navy in time of war. attention iu all parts of the world. It shows the tendency of that Goverment to form a State religion and become a persecuting power Japan has a unique temperance society. Its members 00D HEALTH. It will interest and instruct all. 383 pp. Price, 4s. are firmly pledged not to use even a drop of alcoholic liquor until all the 'waters of the earth are changed to the This Journal has enjoyed a long period of progressive prosperity. Every year its publishers have added some new feature or department, or greatly same di ink. improved those which it already contained, until now it has Ten Distinct HE WAY OF LIFE FROM PARADISE A chimney, 54 feet high, built of solid blocks of paper Departments, each comprising a good variety of 1, teresting and i. sir active LOST TO PARADISE RESTORED. articles. They are General Hygiene, Happy Fireside, Popular Science, Social joined with a special cement, has been constructed in Purity, Bible Hygiene, Editorial, Domestic Medicine, The Question Box, Hygiene Germany. It is not only non-inflammable, but quite for Young Folks, Science for the Household. A beautiful allegorical steel engraving, 24 by 30 inches, illus- Such a fund of information on so important topics is not combined in trating the history of man as related to the plan of salvation, from, secure from lightning. any other journal. The publishers have placed the journal within the the first transgression to the restoration of the race to its Edenic In Ronan, the Chinese pro since that suffered so severely reach of all by the nominal price they are charging for it. It is a monthly holiness, journal of thirty-two pages, and can be had for five shiPings per annum, In the center of the engraving, the most prominent of all, stands from the overflow of the Yellow River a few months ago, post-paid. For Six Shillings the subscriber may obtain a premium a the cross with its dying victim. The shadow of the cross is shown it is said that 2,000,000 persons are entirely destitute, and valuable work, entitled, "Practical Manual of Hygiene anti Temperance." extending back through the ages even to the garden of Eden, to point Persons wi hing to p scare this valcable jou nal, with or without premium. sinners from the earliest time to the "Lamb of God." The priest is the suffering is appalling. can do so by sending tie am tot 1) post-office order or otherwise to seen offering the lamb for the penitent, pointing him to Christ who is A proposition has been 'wide to build a railway through BIBLE ECHO, North Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria. to come, for the atonement of h s faults. Coining by the cross, the ' - scene changes, and instead of types and shadows, the memorials of Canada, Alaska, across Behring's Strait and Siberia, to the gospel, Baptism and the Lord's Supper, are beautifully represented. Europe. It is to connect with United States roads at XFORD TEACHERS' BIBLES. The picture is very comprehensive, and will repay careful study. It is suitable to adorn any parlor or public hall, and has been valued is Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a branch will extend to China. America at 30s. Price in the Colonies, 8s. 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We can recom- either gas or electricity. • Pica, 16rao., else x 61 x 17 inch, at 185. mend it to all. Price, is

112 BIBLE ECHO AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES. VoL. 3, No. 7.

PAPERS are sent from this office only to subscribers. If for the workers. As the result of intelligent efforts in pie delta mill lig10 thf. Mow, you receive papers when you have not ordered them, it is Bible-readings, and the few public services that have been through the kindness of some friend. held, several hate already embrace,: the Sabbath, and Melbourne, Australia, July, 1888. other truths of the third angel's Message. and we were agreeably surprised to meet a company last Sabbath of PERSONS in New Zealand who wish to subscribe for any About thirty, including' those connected with the work. CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. of the periodicals pnlmlished at this office, should send Quite a number of others are deeply interested in the POETRY. their order to the agent, Mr. Edward Hare. See address truth. The workers seem to he full of faith and courage, and the Lord is blessing their efforts. Bro. Haskell, Behold your King 97 , in Publishers' Department. Work Tog:ther 98 whose health has been poor through the winter, and upon Gethsemene 101 whom the burden of the work rests, finds himself much She always Made Home Happy 102 He Chose This Path for Thee 108 'NE meetings in Federal Hall, Hobart, Tasmania, have better physically than he has been for seine months. Be- The Price of a Drink 110 closed, though services will continue to he held on the tween thirty-five and forty Bible-readings are held with GENERAL. families each week, besides a Sabbath-school and three Sabbath and, on Sunday, Forty have signed the covenant, Nehemiah Desires to Restore Jerusalem 97 public services." How Errors are Perpetuated .. 98 and five others are keeping the Sabbath, Bro. Israel Bible Conversion and Growth in Grace 98 Bro. Haskell also writes hopefully of the work there. Rewarl and Loss .. 99 expects to organize a church before leaving them. The Human If 99 Eighteen have taken a stand on the truth, quite a number Fighting a Good Fight . . 99 of whom propose to devote their time and energies to the The Sabbath Question, and the Resurrection on the Ito ring of S NOE the first form of the ECHO was printed, some the Third Day • . .. 100 Sin is Lawlessness .. 101 revisions in the list of agents have been made. The advancement of the cause of 'God. Signs of the Nearing Advent 101 An End of Wickedness 101 agent for Tasmania is G. Foster, not "J," and the address Common Duties .. 102 THE WILL OF GOD- Temper and Good Looks 102 is "Ashleigh," Queen S'reet, Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tas- ME HUM CIRCLE. mania. The Adelaide agency is Mrs. E. Semple, Webb " Nor every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall Experiences of Divers .. 102 Street, Norwood, South Australia. Slow Poisoning .. 103 enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the Extensive Libraries .. 103 The Deacon's Way .. will of my Father which is in heaven." Matt. 7 :21. 103 PARENTS may gain a useful hint from "The Deacon's EDITORIAL. In an eminent sense, the will of God to fallen man is Rise and Progress of Present Truth.—No. 6 .. 104 Way "in the " Home Circle." When a farmer sows a Antichrist—No. 5 .. 104 expressed in time ten commandments. Those precepts em- Sunday down to the Reformation .. 105 field, he knows that the 'best way to keep down the weeds phatically tell hire what he May do and what he may not The Or .ties of God .. 106 The Power of Christianity . .. 106 is to sow plenty of good seed. If the Wheat occupies all do, as thus is the will of God expressed. In hartnony with The Saints Shall Take the Kingdom 112 the ground, there will be no room for tares. And it is so The Will of God .. 112 this sentiment are the golden texts : "Blessed are they BIBLE STUDENT. with the minds 'of children and of grown persons too. that do his commandments, that they may have right to The Books of Moses .. 106 There is nothiug like good reading to destroy a taste for the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into Hob. 12 :1,2 • • 107 What Was Done Away .. .. 107 the bad. Forty-five Miles to Tartarus 107 the city ;" " If thou wilt enter into life, k ep the com- THE MISSIONARY. mandments." A VERY complete "Member's Pass-book" has just been Why stand Ye All the Day Idle .. 108 But how many are saying, "Lord, Lord," while they re - Notes by the Way .. 108 issued under the auspices of the International Tract and Men Wanted 108 fuse to do time will of God expressed in the commandments Will a Man Rob God ? 108 Missionary Society, in accordance with an action taken at of God. They profess great love for the Saviour, and The Work in Other Lands 108 the-late General Conference. The book is admirably de- Missionary Experience .. 108 talk fervently of Christ, the gospel, and the cross ; but TIMELY TOPICS. signed to.enable tract society members to keep a full and they consign the will of God to the dust of the ground. The Controversy of 1888 109 accurate account of all work done with the least possible The Conflict Between the Church and the Stace in Italy .. 109 and love the Saviour a great way off. The Father and HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE. otfflay of time and troub e. Blanks are arranged for each Wine and the Bible the Son are one. A sanctified Scriptural faith brings our What to Eat and When to Eat day in the year, for quarterly reports, and memoranda, adorable Redeemer very near, and holds the will of God Temperance Items .. and all necessary instruction is given. The books are the Don't W, rry about Yourself in the mind and in the heart.—James White. Pulse the Most Nutritious Food property of the society, and are entrusted to members on NEWS PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT condition 'Of using them faithfully. Orders from tract THE SAINTS WILL TAKE THE KINGDOM. societies can be filled from this office. THE gratifying intelligence has been received that Bro. IN Daniel 7 :18, we find the following statement : G. Q. Tenney, who at the late General Conference was LAs'r month mention was made of the good work that " But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom. appointed to have editorial supervision of the ECHO. left has been done in Pitcairn Island, and a letter was published and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever." San Francisco, June 2. With his family, he is now in from a lady residing there. The readers of the ECHO will The question suggests itself how this declaration can Auckland, New Zealand, but they expect to reach Mel be interested to know that at a meeting of the General be made to fit the idea of the spiritu d kingdom which so bourne by the last Sabbath in June or the first in July. Conference Committee recently held in Battle Creek, many think is the kind of kingdom here intended ; and After spending a short time here, Bro. Tenney expects to Michigan, it was docid el to send help to t his island and we propose this query to those who think that all the visit the various churches and companies of Sabbath- others of the S nail Pacific. Bro. A. J., Cu 'cloy, and Bro. kingdom which Christ is to have, and all the one that is keepers in the colonies. He sends the following good Tay, who first took the truth to this lonely island, were described by the pens of time prophets, is a kingdom of words of greeting selected for this field, and are probably now on their way, grace in the hearts of believers, a church kingdom set up " As we come to join hands with the workers in the as they were to start about the first of May. It will be on the day of Pentecost, or some manifestation of the cause of present truth in Aestralasia, we extend to all part of their duty to report at the next General Conference work of the gospel among men. friends of the cause the kindliest greeting. Although as to the advisability of purchasing a -mission slip, and "The saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom." personally unacquainted with most of you, and with your sending laborers to the South Sea Jslands. Who are the saints of the Most High ?—They are the ones peculiar circumstances, we already feel a fervent love for who already have this•work of grace in the heart, the ones the work of God in this part of the world, and for those THE April number of Good He ilth has been mailed who already constitute the church of God on the earth. who have the faith and courage to take their stand fr o m this office,—the first of the Australasian edition If they were not-people of tbis kind, and had not this work upon a platform of truth where they are subject to incon- which it is proposed to publish hereafter. This is a health of grace in the heart, they would not be the saints of the venience, reproach, and worldly loss, and which involves journal, and every number gives a vast amount of useful Most High. But they are the saints of the Most High toil and sacrifice. information respecting the care of the body in health or when it is said of them that they shall take the kingdom. But if the truth imposes a cross which separates us sickness. If you are sick, it will help you to get well. If They have all the works of grace in the heart, and sustain from the world, and the world from us, we may glory in you are well, it will aid you in keeping so. Yet the jour- all the relatiOns to each other necessary to constitute all it. For that which separates us from evil leads us to nal is by no means confined to health subjects, hut has a that makes a spiritual kingdom ; and yet they are not now God. The truth conveys to us the greatest blessings ; for wide range of reading matter, having departments devoted in possession of the kingdom which the prophet brings to through • obedience to it, we have God's approving to temperance, popular science, social purity, domestic view, but it is said of them that they shall take that smiles, and we may become sanctified and made meet medicine, hygiene for the young, science'for the household, kingdom. for his use. It involves the c promise of the life which and reading for the fireside, besides the general articles Now we ask, Is this a spiritual kingdom? If so, how now is, and of that which is to come.' It has ever anti the editorials. The articles are not dull and prosy ; could they take it? How can those ,vho have the work been the portion and the privilege of the true disciple of but many of them are short, an 1 all are full of life and of grace so far developed in their hearts that they are Jesus to stem the tide of popular sentiment, and uphold interest. You want it, and Your neighbor wants it. It saints of the Most High, and members of his spiri tual unpopular truths by cross-bearing and self-denying service. would be a welcome and profitable visitor in every home. kingdom, take a spiritual kingdom, which consists of the Such labor calls down upon it the condemnation of the Price 5s. per year ; Os. with premium ; single copy, 6d. same things which they already possess ? They could world-loving throng ; but by it great blessings have The premium, Health and Temperance Hand-Book, con- not. Then it was not a spiritual kingdom to which the always been brought to mankind. And so we labor, not tains, among other things, many useful recipes. Address, prophet referred. Amen. But the saints sh ll take the for the good alone which may come to us, but that we may Good Health, Echo Publishing house, North Fitzroy, kingdom, such a kingdom as they can take, not a spiritual become mediums of blessings to others. To this end, let Victoria. kingdom, but the kingdom of God, which he shall establish us labor together, and seek the help of God. under the whole heavens. U. S. "A kind Providence has watched over us on our ocean ABOUT the first of April, Bro. and Sr. Robinson reached journey, and brought us nearly half way around the earth London on their return from South Africa. Through A NEW dynamite cruiser_ gun-boat, the New Yorktown, in safety. It will be duty to tarry a few days in New Present Truth, Bro. Robinson speaks thus of the ad- built for the United States by a Philadelphia company, Zealand, and then to find a home and a place among you. vancement that has been made in the work in London. carries four pneumatic guris for tile hurling of dynamite assurance of We bear to you the the earnest interest and "It is highly gratifying to see the progress that has projectiles, and is claimed to be the most formidable engine fervent prayers of all our people in America. No distance been made in the work here in London during time past of war yet invented. The guns are loaded by steam, and nor national distinction can weaken the bonds of mutual few months. The office of publication has been removed the shells, containing 600 pounds of explosive gelatine, interest and sympathy which unite the hearts of God's from Grimsby to this city. This is located just outside of the business centre, and a businesm office, salesroom, can be fired twice a minute. people. And as we near our home, and the consummation and book depot has been secured on -Paternoster Row, of our hope, let us take fresh courage, and renew, each Printed and published by M. C. Israel and W. D. Curtis, for the I»terna. which is one of the greatest book centres in the world. tional Tract Society, at the Echo Publishing House, Rae and Seotehurer day, our strength from the divine Source." - Besides this, a house near Tufnell Park has been rented Streets, North Fitzroy.